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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:40:59 +0100
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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To: 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 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.