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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MISC: convert drivers/misc/* to use module_i2c_driver()
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On Friday 25 November 2011, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > Obviously it can only go in after the patches introducing the macros.
> > Since Greg owns both the char-misc and driver-core trees, there should
> > be no problem coordinating between the two.
> > 
> Yes, but a similar patch has been send out for of a bunch of other trees.
> And the commit message does not state that there is a dependency on not yet
> applied patches and neither where to get them.

Yes, good point. That should probably be mentioned so people don't just
apply the patches and find out the hard way that they don't work.

	Arnd