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On 21.05.19 16:45, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> It sits here.  It is a rather big and clunky mfd driver, not ready for
> upstreaming in its current form.  I hope to get around to clean it up.
> But it is for a very specific hardware that is really available or
> usable for anybody else.  Does it make sense to spend effort on
> submitting such a driver?

Maybe you could post your queue w/ "RFC: " prefix and add a proper
introduction, so everybody knows that isn't meant to be upstreamed,
but instead a basis for discussions ?

Personally, I'd like to have a look at it and understand, what's the
actual problem you'd like to solve.


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