linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/19] mach-davinci: move DaVinci TNET GPIO driver to GPIO subsystem

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Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:06:07 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	"Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar@...com>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	"Hilman, Kevin" <khilman@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] mach-davinci: move DaVinci TNET GPIO driver to GPIO subsystem

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Nori, Sekhar <nsekhar@...com> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 17:47:19, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>>
>> As per example from the other ARM boards, push the DaVinci TNET
>> GPIO driver down to the GPIO subsystem so it can be consolidated.
>>
>> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
>> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>
> There should be no need of this since the TNETV107x
> GPIO can simply be supported using the basic MMIO GPIO
> driver. I submitted patches for that a while back
> but have some comments from Grant to address. He requested
> some changes to be done to the basic MMIO GPIO driver
> itself.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/5/16
>
> I do plan to rework those patches and post them back.

OK I will keep this around in case it doesn't happen
soon, it certainly does not make matters worse
anyway.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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