Mark Brown wrote: > 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.
That is good news. It would still be an extra thing to add to the docs, but not a blocking point. I am more worried about the address pointer handling and the I2C retries. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
