On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Should we also remove the drivers or move them into staging? >> >> I'd prefer to keep them. If they are needed again, DT conversion is >> likely and easier than restarting from scratch. Guenter Roeck also >> prefers to not unnecessarily annoy people who might have out-of-tree >> board code. So, as long as they are not painful, let's keep them? > > The one reason I can think of for removing them is that we don't > want ambient light sensor drivers in drivers/misc any more and > instead of adding DT probing code would also expect new users to > migrate to drivers/iio/light/, which already has drivers for > apds9300 and apds9960 but not apds990x, as well as bh1750 and > bh1780 but not bh1770. This (apds990x) and bh1770 were added by Samu Onkalo for Nokia's upstreaming efforts. Samu, what are the hardware targets using this? Something that has a userspace etc that we can test? Like Nokia 900 or so? Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
