Re: [PATCH v5 09/15] i2c: acpi: Introduce i2c_acpi_get_i2c_resource() helper

[Wolfram Sang]

> > >  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > >  include/linux/acpi.h        | 11 ++++++++++
> > 
> > Any reason this is not in i2c.h?
> 
> Yes. As I explained earlier to some people there are facts affecting this:
> - the function is operate on top of solely ACPI structures

And moving the function itself to the ACPI realm then?

I don't say this is a show-stopper for this series, but I just wonder...

> - there is already similar function for GPIO and it stays like that
> 
> On top of this recently I've discovered, that i2c.h has separate #ifdef for I2C
> and ACPI which theoretically might produce a linker error in some cases.

Is this something we have to live with or which can be cleaned up
somewhen?

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