Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] input: mouse: Kill off platform data for GPIO mouse

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is not used much: git grep  gpio_mouse_platform_data shows
> that absolutely nothing in the kernel defines this platform
> data.
>
> It could be argued that the driver should be deleted. But that
> is a bit harsh I think since it seems generally useful. So
> this patch starts a series which repurposes it to be used with
> hardware nodes from device tree or ACPI.
>
> This first patch simply localize the platform data header and
> allocates a dummy platform data.
>
> Yes: this patch leaves the driver in a pretty useless state,
> but since nothing is instantiating this driver, it doesn't
> make it more useless than it already is. Later patches makes
> use of the driver.
>
> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1->v2:
> - Collect Hand-Christian's ACK

Dmitry: with Rob's ACK arrvied on the DT bindings, can this series
be applied?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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