From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] i2c: acpi: Export i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() for users
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 12:34:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLC5IstyPFQA6mBp@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLC3HzCUhEYmfckj@kroah.com>
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:25:51AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
Fair enough.
> Andy, work to get the driver out of staging first before doing stuff
> like this.
Okay, I'll drop first one and patches related to it in the v2.
It should bring us closer to the mentioned point.
Thanks for clarification!
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-28 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-26 12:43 [PATCH v1 1/6] i2c: acpi: Export i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() for users Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-26 12:43 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] staging: atomisp: Replace open-coded i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-22 8:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-07-22 9:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-26 12:43 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] staging: atomisp: Remove unused declarations Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-26 12:43 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] staging: atomisp: Annotate a couple of definitions with __maybe_unused Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-26 12:43 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] staging: atomisp: Move MIPI_PORT_LANES to the only user Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-26 18:23 ` kernel test robot
2021-05-26 18:23 ` kernel test robot
2021-05-26 12:43 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] staging: atomisp: Remove unused port_enabled variable Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-27 20:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] i2c: acpi: Export i2c_acpi_find_client_by_adev() for users Wolfram Sang
2021-05-28 9:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-28 9:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-28 9:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-28 9:34 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-05-28 10:01 ` Wolfram Sang
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