From: vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com (Vivien Didelot)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] misc: (at24) move header to linux/platform_data/
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:09:12 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414767040.1054326.1380226152008.JavaMail.root@mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169123028.921974.1377290733515.JavaMail.root@mail>
Hi Wolfram,
> Wolfram wrote:
>
> > > IMHO it makes sense. Why wouldn't we want all platform_data in
> > > include/linux/platform_data/?
> >
> > For the same reason we don't want all driver source files in one
> > directory? It's a mess.
>
> Well, that's different. Not all drivers expose platform data, but
> many subsystems have drivers with platform data. A common include
> directory for the *_platform_data structure definitions makes sense.
Also IMO having such header file in include/linux/i2c/ for a driver
declared in drivers/misc/eeprom/ is not very consistent.
So this is the purpose of this include directory. What do you think?
Best,
Vivien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-23 18:38 [PATCH] misc: (at24) move header to linux/platform_data/ Vivien Didelot
2013-08-23 19:02 ` Wolfram Sang
2013-08-23 19:19 ` Vivien Didelot
2013-08-23 19:26 ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-23 19:40 ` Vivien Didelot
2013-08-23 20:11 ` Wolfram Sang
2013-08-23 20:45 ` Vivien Didelot
2013-09-26 20:09 ` Vivien Didelot [this message]
2013-09-27 16:32 ` Wolfram Sang
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