Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface

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On 05/25/2017 08:00 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 03:08:14PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> Like other subsystems we should be able to define slave devices outside
>> of the w1 directory. To do this we move public facing interface
>> definitions to include/linux/w1.h and rename the internal definition
>> file to w1_internal.h.
>>
>> As w1_family.h and w1_int.h contained almost entirely public
>> driver interface definitions we simply removed these files and
>> moved the remaining definitions into w1_internal.h.
>>
>> With this we can now start to move slave devices out of w1/slaves and
>> into the subsystem based on the function they implement, again like
>> other drivers.
> 
> Do you have a patch that does that?  I don't want to accept this patch
> if that never happens...
> 

Yes, this reorganization stems from the need to move the BQ27xxx slave
out, patches were posted and reviewed last cycle here[0] and will be
reposted when this patch is accepted. Other w1/slaves can be moved out
at their owners convenience if/when they wish.

Thanks,
Andrew

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/16/688

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
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