Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support ROHM BU27034 ALS sensor

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Thu Mar 23 2023 - 05:39:17 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:59:33PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > I agree with Maxime that a little bit of duplication (that can be cleaned
> > up by each subsystem at their own pace) is the path of least resistance.
>
> I'd say this depends. It probably is the path of least resistance for people
> maintaining the trees. It can also be the path of least resistance in
> general - but it depends on if there will be no new users for those DRM
> helpers while waiting the new APIs being merged in DRM tree. More users we
> see in DRM, more effort the clean-up requires.

So far there's one user in DRM, and I'm not aware of any current work
using it at the moment. Even if some show up in the short-term future,
it's not going to be overwhelming.

Maxime

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