linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] i2c: move include files out of include/linux/i2c

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:46:10 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] i2c: move include files out of include/linux/i2c

Hi peda,

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:37:41PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to use include/linux/i2c for client drivers which may in
> fact rather be hwmon or input or whatever devices. As a result, I want to
> deprecate include/linux/i2c for good. This series moves the include files to a
> better location, largely include/platform_data because that is what most of the
> moved include files contain. Note that some files don't seem to have upstream
> users in board code, so they maybe could even be removed? I didn't check for
> that now, but I did it for one i2c master driver recently. So, it may be
> possible.
> 
> And while i2c muxes might be a corner case, I still want to deprecate
> include/linux/i2c for good ;)
> 
> No runtime testing because of no HW, but buildbot is happy with this series at
> least. A branch can be found here:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git i2c/platform_data

Since there were no other i2c-mux patches this merge window and thus no
pull request, do you mind if I pick these two patches for my second pull
request this merge window to have them included in 4.13 already?

Regards,

   Wolfram


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