Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Should we also remove the drivers or move them into staging?
>
> I'd prefer to keep them. If they are needed again, DT conversion is
> likely and easier than restarting from scratch. Guenter Roeck also
> prefers to not unnecessarily annoy people who might have out-of-tree
> board code. So, as long as they are not painful, let's keep them?

The one reason I can think of for removing them is that we don't
want ambient light sensor drivers in drivers/misc any more and
instead of adding DT probing code would also expect new users to
migrate to drivers/iio/light/, which already has drivers for
apds9300 and apds9960 but not apds990x, as well as bh1750 and
bh1780 but not bh1770.

       Arnd