Re: [PATCH] misc: (at24) move header to linux/platform_data/

Vivien Didelot
2013-09-26T20:09:18Z

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