On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: >> >> 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 -- 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
