Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: add driver support for MAX8997 MUIC

[Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:34:01PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 15 December 2011, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> > Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Monday 12 December 2011, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > > The part that is not clear to me is how this new driver fits in
> > > with the first fsa9480 driver and the currently discussed extcon
> > > subsystem, apparently all written by the same team at Samsung.
> > > Is this misc driver still useful when the extcon framework gets
> > > merged?
> > 
> > When extcom gets merged, this driver should be updated. It looks like allowing
> > the interrupt handler to update extcon state would be enough. Bascially, this
> > is all this driver is required for extcon to work. (and the prvious author of
> > extcon--"extended" switch class at that time--was the author of this patch.)
> > 
> > Anyway, this patch has just told me that I'll need to add more sysfs entries
> > for extcon to show the list of cable names and/or to show the status for each
> > of them, soon or later.
> 
> I think it would be better not to merge this driver until the user interface
> in the extcon framework has been finalized. I don't mind the driver, but I
> want to prevent user interfaces from appearing in the kernel that we
> intend to change anyway.
> 
> How about dropping the driver from the mfd tree, and adding it into the
> extcon series for the next posting?
Sounds good to me, I'll drop it.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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