linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] fujitsu

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Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:40:06 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>,
        Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fujitsu_init() cleanup

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 02:24:40PM +0100, Michał Kępień wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:33:28AM +0100, Micha?? K??pie?? wrote:
>> > > GregKH wrote:

>> Greg objected to that, arguing that there might be userspace
>> applications using these attributes under their current path.  I do not
>> know of such an application.  My question to Darren was thus: do we move
>> dock, lid and radios and rip the platform driver and platform device out
>> of fujitsu-laptop or should these attributes rather stay where they are?
>
> I would say just to leave them as-is, there's no harm in those 40 lines,
> and you really don't want to break someone's existing setup for no good
> reason.

Michał, from design point of view you can split it to two parts if
*makes sense* / *needed*: core and platform driver.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko