Re: [PATCH] backlight: ktz8866: Convert to i2c's .probe_new()

[Jianhua Lu <lujianhua000@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 06:07:08PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:44:30AM +0800, Jianhua Lu wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 05:16:13PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > I don't want to squash the changes to the ktz8866 driver into the patch
> > > that modifies struct i2c_driver, as this needlessly clutters the commit,
> > > if it's that what you wanted. (There are more than 1000 i2c drivers and
> > > the others are not converted in a single lockstep, too.)
> > 
> > Do't squash this patch, I'd like you send a series patch instead of
> > a single patch.
> 
> This series was already sent before. However that happend based on a
> tree that didn't contain the ktz8866 backlight driver, so this patch
> came later (and I didn't resend the whole series for the two drivers
> that were added since then :-). See
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221118224540.619276-1-uwe@kleine-koenig.org.
> for the original post.
Thanks for explanation.
> 
> Letting this patch go in via the i2c tree together with the commit
> changing i2c_driver is fine for me, it won't be the only one.
I think so too.
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe
> 
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