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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Hennerich <hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org>,
	Anantha Narayanan <Anantha.Narayanan@intel.com>,
	Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>,
	Hemanth V <hemanthv@ti.com>,
	Christoph Mair <christoph.mair@gmail.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>,
	Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>,
	Kalhan Trisal <kalhan.trisal@intel.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>,
	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
	Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MISC: convert drivers/misc/* to use module_i2c_driver()
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:40:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECF70BB.2080904@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111251015.43439.arnd@arndb.de>

On 11/25/2011 11:15 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 25 November 2011, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 11/25/2011 05:14 AM, Axel Lin wrote:
>>> This patch converts the drivers in drivers/misc/* to use the
>>> module_i2c_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit
>>> simpler.
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
>> I think we should wait with spi and i2c patches until the macro can actually
>> be found in respective subsystem tree. Or do you want these patches to go
>> through GregKH's driver-core tree?
> 
> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-25 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25  4:14 [PATCH 1/2] MISC: convert drivers/misc/* to use module_i2c_driver() Axel Lin
2011-11-25  4:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] MISC: convert drivers/misc/* to use module_spi_driver() Axel Lin
2011-11-25  7:51   ` Michael Hennerich
2011-11-25  8:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] MISC: convert drivers/misc/* to use module_i2c_driver() Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-11-25 10:15   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-11-25 10:40     ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2011-11-25 13:58       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-11-27  4:16 ` Greg KH
2011-11-27 12:01   ` Axel Lin

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