linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: light: isl29018/28: remove I2C_CLASS

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Message-ID: <6c46ec72-3cf2-0b8a-9a1f-38341573ccef@kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:30:08 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Alison Schofield <amsfield22@...il.com>, knaack.h@....de,
	lars@...afoo.de, pmeerw@...erw.net, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linux I2C <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: light: isl29018/28: remove I2C_CLASS_HWMON
 .class setting

On 20/07/16 16:08, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 19/07/16 08:13, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> On 18/07/16 09:50, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday 16 July 2016 07:58 AM, Alison Schofield wrote:
>>>>> I2C_CLASS_HWMON is for a hardware monitoring chip wanting
>>>>> auto-detection.  IIO drivers don't typically use .class.
>>>>> Remove it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <amsfield22@...il.com>
>>>>> Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Agree.
>>>> Acked-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
>>> Any resulting ABI change from dropping it?
>>
>> What do you mean with ABI? This is only relevant for "automatic"
>> instantiation.
> Cool, I was just being paranoid and didn't have time to check!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
>> From me:
>>
>> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
>>
>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git - initially pushed out
as testing for the autoubuilders to play with it.

thanks,

Jonathan
 
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