linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 08:07:50 -0500
From:   "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface

On 05/25/2017 08:00 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 03:08:14PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> Like other subsystems we should be able to define slave devices outside
>> of the w1 directory. To do this we move public facing interface
>> definitions to include/linux/w1.h and rename the internal definition
>> file to w1_internal.h.
>>
>> As w1_family.h and w1_int.h contained almost entirely public
>> driver interface definitions we simply removed these files and
>> moved the remaining definitions into w1_internal.h.
>>
>> With this we can now start to move slave devices out of w1/slaves and
>> into the subsystem based on the function they implement, again like
>> other drivers.
> 
> Do you have a patch that does that?  I don't want to accept this patch
> if that never happens...
> 

Yes, this reorganization stems from the need to move the BQ27xxx slave
out, patches were posted and reviewed last cycle here[0] and will be
reposted when this patch is accepted. Other w1/slaves can be moved out
at their owners convenience if/when they wish.

Thanks,
Andrew

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/16/688

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>