[PATCH 4/9] ARM: SPMP8000: Add ADC driver

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Of course, if the spmp8000 adc driver gets put into staging, all its
> dependencies (input, battery) also have to go there because no
> regular driver must link against interfaces provided by a staging
> driver.

Yes, that's the big problem with this - it blocks the actual drivers.
Putting it in drivers/misc would be another option that sidesteps that.