Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 10:29:40 EST


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> include/linux/i2c is not for client devices. Move the header file to a
> more appropriate location.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/apds990x.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/{i2c => platform_data}/apds990x.h | 0
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> rename include/linux/{i2c => platform_data}/apds990x.h (100%)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/apds990x.c b/drivers/misc/apds990x.c
> index dfb72ecfa60461..c341164edaad01 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/apds990x.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/apds990x.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/wait.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> -#include <linux/i2c/apds990x.h>
> +#include <linux/platform_data/apds990x.h>

The new location is clearly better than the old, but I notice that in both
patches, there is not a single definition for the platform_data structure
in the kernel and both drivers refuse to load when they do not get
passed valid platform_data.

Should we also remove the drivers or move them into staging?

Arnd