Hi Linus, On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In this case you need to enumerate the benefits of this driver over > > unified driver and show why the unified driver can't be fixed. > > 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? I think what we really need is to accelerate work on the full driver so it is in mainline in 3.9ish. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
