Hi Mauro, On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:35:01PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em 30-01-2011 21:23, Samuel Ortiz escreveu: > > Hi Matti, > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:04:23PM +0200, Matti J. Aaltonen wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I have been trying to get the WL1273 FM radio driver into the kernel for > >> some time. It has been kind of difficult, one of the reasons is that I > >> didn't realize I should have tried to involve all relevant maintainers > >> to the discussion form the beginning (AsoC, Media and MFD). At Mark's > >> suggestion I'm trying to reopen the discussion now. > >> > >> The driver consists of an MFD core and two child drivers (the audio > >> codec and the V4L2 driver). And the question is mainly about the role of > >> the MFD driver: the original design had the IO functions in the core. > >> Currently the core is practically empty mainly because Mauro very > >> strongly wanted to have âeverythingâ in the V4L2 driver. > > What was Mauro main concerns with having the IO part in the core ? > > A lot of MFD drivers are going that path already. > > My concerns is that the V4L2-specific part of the code should be at drivers/media. > I prefer that the specific MFD I/O part to be at drivers/mfd, just like > the other drivers. Agreed, but it seems that's not the case currently. Would you be ok with Matti refactoring those 2 drivers a bit so that the actual core I/O parts should be handled by the MFD driver ? Cheers, Samuel. -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
