linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/17] t7166xb: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers

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Message-ID: <1297681491.2854.19.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:04:51 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] t7166xb: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to
 drivers

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 02:00 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:17:44 +0200
> Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 18:11 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > No need to explicitly set the cell's platform_data/data_size.
> > > 
> > > Modify clients to use mfd_get_cell helper function instead of
> > > accessing platform_data directly.
> > 
> > Wold it be possible to separate out MTD-related changes?
> > 
> 
> It's possible, sure.  Patch 09 is the only one that touches
> drivers/mtd.  It would introduce build and/or runtime problems if mtd
> and mfd trees get out of synch, however.
> 
> I was hoping to get subsystem maintainer ACKs and run everything
> through the mfd tree, if possible (though I haven't heard any feedback
> from Samuel about any of this yet).

OK, I'm not MTD maintainer, but I'd say that you can merge it via mfd
tree. I did no look at the whole set, but mtd changes look trivial and
there should not be issues with merging that via the mfd tree.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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