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From: wsa@the-dreams.de (Wolfram Sang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] misc: (at24) move header to linux/platform_data/
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:32:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130927163242.GB3094@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414767040.1054326.1380226152008.JavaMail.root@mail>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:09:12PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> 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?

Well, yes, I will apply it if you could rebase it onto v3.12-rc2. I am
unsure about the platform_data dir in general, though. For example, I'd
prefer to have the i2c-* files in the i2c-dir, but this is another
question.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-27 16:32 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
2013-09-27 16:32           ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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