On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:26:33PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 03:43:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > There is at least one user that will gain from the > > i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() being exported. > > No objections per se. But as the user is in staging, I want to ask if > the use there is really a solution we would also accept outside of > staging? Or is it a hack? staging drivers should be self-contained, do not accept code in the core kernel that only is used by staging drivers. So I would not recommend this be accepted at this point in time. Andy, work to get the driver out of staging first before doing stuff like this. thanks, greg k-h
