[RFC PATCH] staging: ak8975: add platform data.

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Tue Feb 22 09:29:55 UTC 2011


Hi Jonathan,

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:10:14 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 02/15/11 20:49, Andrew Chew wrote:
> >> As some of the platform not support irq_to_gpio, we pass gpio port
> >> by platform data.
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Chew <achew at nvidia.com>
> Firstly, please cc linux-iio for patches effecting iio drivers.
> 
> Hmm.. It's a bit of a pain that i2c devices don't take platform resources
> or we could avoid doing this entirely. I have a vague recollection of this
> being suggested in the past, but never happening (might have been for spi
> rather than i2c though...) Jean, can you comment on this?

I fear I don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about.
"Taking platform resources"?

> Dmitry isn't going to want that header in the linux/input directory.

And he would be right. Header files containing platform data structures
for i2c device drivers go to include/linux/i2c.

-- 
Jean Delvare



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