Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:05:41 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC] staging: ste_rmi4: merge into the main kernel tree | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: >> >> The benefit is that the ugliness in >> drivers/staging/ste_rmi4/board-mop500-u8500uib-rmi4.c >> can be avoided, as today we're unable to pass the compulsory >> platform data in any sane way. I'm being told that this weak symbol >> override actually does not really work... especially if there are more >> than 1 I2C device on the bus :-P > > I am confused as to why this would be a benefit of ste_rmi4 over full > RMI4 implementation from Christopher's group?
So we don't need to keep our real platform data and board files out-of-tree like we've done for the last 2 years or so.
But I only said it's a benefit, not that I think it's a good idea.
> I think what we really need is to accelerate work on the full driver so > it is in mainline in 3.9ish.
Yep, agreed.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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