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

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

quoted

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