On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:25:51AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:26:33PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 03:43:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > There is at least one user that will gain from the > > > i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() being exported. > > > > No objections per se. But as the user is in staging, I want to ask if > > the use there is really a solution we would also accept outside of > > staging? Or is it a hack? > > staging drivers should be self-contained, do not accept code in the core > kernel that only is used by staging drivers. > > So I would not recommend this be accepted at this point in time. Fair enough. > Andy, work to get the driver out of staging first before doing stuff > like this. Okay, I'll drop first one and patches related to it in the v2. It should bring us closer to the mentioned point. Thanks for clarification! -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
