RE: [PATCH] staging:iio: moved platform_data into include/linux/iio

From: Sharma, Sanjeev
Date: Mon Aug 25 2014 - 03:17:43 EST


Hello Lars,

As per your suggestion Can I move complete Driver out of staging specially SPI ADC Driver.

Regards
Sanjeev Sharma

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars-Peter Clausen [mailto:lars@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:20 PM
To: sanjeev sharma
Cc: Sharma, Sanjeev; jic23@xxxxxxxxxx; gregkh; linux-iio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel; linux-kernel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:iio: moved platform_data into include/linux/iio

On 08/20/2014 08:44 AM, sanjeev sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This was the action item(TO-DO). IMO, it make sense to move into
> include/linux/iio because IIO complete subsystem may take some time.

The code that is in staging is not supposed to 'leak' outside of staging. So either you move the driver as a whole out of staging or leave it there, but do not move individual files of the driver out of staging. The action item is for when the driver is moved out of staging.