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

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> 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

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[PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-21 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-22 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-22 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-23 00:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-05-23 00:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-23 08:30 +0200

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