linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] chrome_laptop: stop being a platform driver

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Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:17:01 -0700
From:   Benson Leung <bleung@...gle.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
        Nick Dyer <nick@...anahar.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bleung@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] chrome_laptop: stop being a platform driver

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:08:53PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series is a combination of Atmel touchscreen driver stopping using
> platform data and moving over to generic device properties, and
> chromeos-laptop switching from being platform driver, which is the wrong
> abstraction for it, and moving to using i2c bis notifier. Switching from
> platform driver to the notifiers allows us to get rid of the ugly code that
> manually tries to handle deferrals in case i2c bus is not ready at the time
> we start initializing the module.
> 
> Benson, because chromeos-laptop is instantiating Atmel devices the 2
> changes are intertwined. While we could apply them in stages, with parts
> going through input and parts going through your tree I was wondering if we
> could speed up the process and push the series through one or another tree
> (if you are OK with the patches, of course).
> 

I'm all for this change. I can push this through my tree.

Thanks,
Benson

-- 
Benson Leung
Staff Software Engineer
Chrome OS Kernel
Google Inc.
bleung@...gle.com
Chromium OS Project
bleung@...omium.org

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