Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty: Folding Android's keyreset driver in sysRQ

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Fri Oct 05 2012 - 15:48:16 EST


On 12-10-05 12:16 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:59:29AM -0600, mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: "Mathieu J. Poirier" <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> After requesting a number of changes that, to my understanding
>> have been implemented, I have not been able to get the attention
>> of the subsystem maintainer on this patch.
>>
>> If there are still issues, I'm open to making changes but I want
>> to make sure it doesn't get forgotten. If there no objections,
>> would you consider queuint it ?
>
> Mathieu,
>
> I have the same objection as before: using platform device solely for
> the purpose of passing some data from board code to the driver. Surely
> there are other ways of passing this bit of data... What about, for
> example, making it an empty weak symbol so that board code could
> override it with strong one?

Thanks for the comments - I will implement a weak function in the
keyreset driver.

Mathieu.

>
> Thanks.
>

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