Re: [RFC] staging: ste_rmi4: merge into the main kernel tree

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> 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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