Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754464Ab3FFJtD (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 05:49:03 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:38120 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751882Ab3FFJtA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 05:49:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:48:22 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Nick Dyer , Daniel Kurtz , Henrik Rydberg , Joonyoung Shim , Alan.Bowens@atmel.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, bleung@chromium.org, olofj@chromium.org Message-ID: <20130606094822.GB1883@sirena.org.uk> References: <1370453866-16534-1-git-send-email-nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> <7380889.l4hHqCT0mm@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> <51AF8730.4010507@itdev.co.uk> <1717403.GgHsbyUkDZ@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> <51AFA02B.3000604@itdev.co.uk> <20130605210715.GA16013@core.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130605210715.GA16013@core.coreip.homeip.net> X-Cookie: Be different: conform. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.42.102.178 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/53] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add memory access interface via sysfs X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2012 Lines: 48 --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:07:15PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:31:39PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > > It's partly path dependence - it was implemented like this because regmap > > wasn't in mainline at the point when I wrote it. Having a dependency on > > regmap would now be a API break complicating support of customers using > > older kernels than mainline. I would also have to update a bunch of > This was never a good argument for introducing an interface into the > kernel. Indeed, and regmap is very easy to backport - it demands little from the rest of the kernel and most of that is bus specific so you can pretty much just copy it into an older kernel. --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRsFrjAAoJELSic+t+oim9F9oP/jAxnQX8zJvdJ+YOTClPv+WM rBgjKPogtuTTHvil5j8HB3adoHG3XhXLteredrZl3FxhyxFaoHwUxN7OPSW1ZOsc MMzTUgQHJEjnioWWGuvlZ3v9+Jei5f2wnUg0K8tYb5TbM5nsrrFRH0GajK1pH3NZ Gc52aHlshB6L3j57z/dQsBHJdqyHKkYsrmu/2YoSZeXXE2P0hQjOl9oaEb3b00+E 3zYnA1dhD29+C8pbisfEzZcaQSMDAK5aGfN01+/PyyGmTDHH6B6s99YeojLaYMoi xcFMACUjhC8bxo4j6fcsPy+Da5oUw6acm+eI8+t6w0TSDXDWJ66GHi8y7VDzD7dE JN28xPBDW9rngTNXDaxgiH4EnWH1JDEnPZXAy2PS6z/tER75qo9aTX604XGk0EPc z8q3gaa6XCHrnXa1GjBfeHpX3I4Yq21WT0hE7NXxyw7ju2OsbdwFgJmXSggM/jpL 2FzQj4tL7WoKppLsCsLnYE1B7XukJ7YtvLFHF1WFtmZlWsCVm2mbwt7jRNYpBOAS rBjhgoO7IaBUNoUgwzP9edVYTphlUC+HvcDjpdFUGAoiFrsfsfR+x/iBHXdtUzgw msPAjXn0HLpsv3zICIMwxjhEOsvpt7lDs2UxDPHIEBVQCualSKi6VWAf4UGh9ca/ dmc/TFt3ZzXjnfv8gl9P =HIyt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/