linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: move of helpers into the core

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Message-ID: <3721030.UJAkTdQrEC@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:25:27 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: move of helpers into the core

On Monday, August 19, 2013 04:56:19 PM Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/19/2013 05:04 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, August 19, 2013 03:19:18 PM Wolfram Sang wrote:
> >> I2C of helpers used to live in of_i2c.c but experience (from SPI) shows
> >> that it is much cleaner to have this in the core. This also removes a
> >> circular dependency between the helpers and the core, and so we can
> >> finally register child nodes in the core instead of doing this manually
> >> in each driver. So, fix the drivers and documentation, too.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should do the analogous for ACPI then?
> > 
> > Rafael
> 
> Aargh. Why quote the entire patch just to say one line?

Because I didn't think I could just skip the patch? ;-)

Also I could trim the CC list quite a bit (done now).

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