Re: [PATCH 4/6] * Register platform interface

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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 04:38:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I am confused here... Are you having a separate SPI driver create a
> > platform device and then you have mrstouch to bind to this
> > intermediate platform device? Are you doing that so you can introduce
> > I2C interface later? If so I think I prefer how adxl34x and ad7879
> > drivers are structured - they are split into core and interface parts
> > but do not require extra devices/drivers (see in my 'next' brnach).
> 
> There is no SPI interface to the device. It ended up in the kernel SPI
> because old versions of the device firmware listed it in the firmware
> tables as SPI and rather than doing the right thing (correcting the
> type) the x86 code created an SPI device for it.
> 
> At a certain level it may be SPI, but it's all hidden behind the
> firmware on the SCU and nothing to do with Linux SPI at all.
> 

Ah, OK then.

So, what is the plan of action? Greg, are you going to apply the patches
to staging and move over to input or shoudl I do that (apply Alan's
patches to staging _in my tree_ and move over to drivers.input)?

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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