From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754669Ab2DTRPk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:15:40 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:55088 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753792Ab2DTRPi (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:15:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:15:34 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Mark Brown Cc: MyungJoo Ham , Arnd Bergmann , LKML , Arve =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hj=F8nnevag?= , Kyungmin Park , Linus Walleij , Dmitry Torokhov , Morten CHRISTIANSEN , John Stultz , myungjoo.ham@gmail.com, cw00.choi@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 resend 6/6] Documentation/extcon: porting guide for Android kernel switch driver. Message-ID: <20120420171534.GA29519@kroah.com> References: <20120420033209.GA17930@kroah.com> <1334898987-7800-1-git-send-email-myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> <1334898987-7800-7-git-send-email-myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> <20120420162529.GA31744@kroah.com> <20120420170519.GB3080@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120420170519.GB3080@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:05:20PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Ok, I've applied this, but I don't know if we really need this in the > > kernel tree. How many out-of-tree android switch drivers are there? > > Who needs to know this information? > > Every phone with a headset jack will have at least one switch if it's > running on Android. People doing system integration will generally need > to know about this, at least until we've got the ALSA detection stuff > integrated with extcon. Ok, but where are those drivers at? Any pointers to them so I can start sucking them into the tree and doing this conversion? Is this, and the wakelock stuff, holding back a torrent of drivers to be submitted somewhere? Or are they buried in vendor trees, never to be seen? thanks, greg k-h