Re: [PATCH] misc: delete bh1780 driver

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Sun Jun 19 2016 - 07:56:04 EST


On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:07:21PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> The Rohm BH1780 ambient light sensor has a new driver with extended
>> functionality (proper runtime PM) in the appropriate framework IIO,
>> it can be found at:
>> drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c
>
> Is that in Linus's tree now?

Yup.

>> Greg/Arnd: I don't know who of you two managed misc patches, Arnd
>> maybe you can just apply this patch to some ARM SoC cleanup branch?
>
> I can handle this, should it go in for 4.7-final, or wait for 4.8-rc1?

Your pick, there are no users of the old driver AFAICT, but if you
want them to get a chance to speak up, maybe wait for v4.8.

Yours,
Linus Walleij