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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Bob Rodgers <Robert_Rodgers@dell.com>,
	"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Louis Davis <Louis_Davis@dell.com>,
	Jim Dailey <Jim_Dailey@dell.com>,
	Michael Brown <Michael_E_Brown@dell.com>,
	Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@dell.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Dell Business Class Netbook LED driver
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:31:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211183103.GB2605@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100211182829.GA26659@core.coreip.homeip.net>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:28:30AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> This is an opposite direction form the rest of the platform drivers
> which tend to combine functionality on per-vendor basis in one driver.

I don't think that's true - we /tend/ to see one driver per ACPI device 
or device interface (see the dell-wmi/dell-laptop split, for instance).

> I'd say that in this case with this LED driver overhead on DELL systems
> not supportinfg it is miniscule. The benefit is that all vendor-specific
> sub-devices are children of one parent platform device.

I really don't see that as a strong benefit.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-08 20:49 [PATCH] Add Dell Business Class Netbook LED driver Bob Rodgers
2010-02-11 17:59 ` Richard Purdie
2010-02-11 18:05   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-11 18:07     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-02-11 18:28       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-11 18:31         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-02-11 18:09   ` Matthew Garrett

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