linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] add gpio driver gpio-mxs

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2011 13:25:25 +0200
From:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>
Cc:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add gpio driver gpio-mxs

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:24:11PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:02:42PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Hi Shawn,
> > 
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:51:25PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > The patch set is to move Freescale MXS gpio driver from mach-mxs
> > > into drivers/gpio.  Different from u300 gpio driver that all gpio
> > > ports are registered as one device, gpio-mxs expects every single
> > > port is a gpio device.
> > > 
> > > The first 3 patches are just to ease review and can be squashed into
> > > the last one.
> > > 
> > > Shawn Guo (4):
> > >       gpio: gpio-mxs: add file gpio-mxs.c
> > >       gpio: gpio-mxs: drop mach-specific accessors
> > >       gpio: gpio-mxs: remove gpio port definition and registration
> > >       gpio: gpio-mxs: add gpio driver for Freescale MXS architecture
> > 
> > Your series should be bisectible. So please either:
> > 
> > - Add the driver the way you want it (no need to modify a new file in
> >   four steps)
> 
> As I said above, I split it into 4 patches just to ease the review,
> and they can be squashed into one when applying.
> 
> > - atomically switch to the new driver
> > - remove old driver
> > 
> These two steps happened in the patch set '[PATCH 0/3] remove mach-mxs
> gpio driver'.  The patch order should be reworked though.
> 
> BTW, are you looking at moving plat-mxc/gpio.c, or I can give a hand
> there?

I'm not working on this, go ahead.

Sascha

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