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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:12:49 +0200 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> To: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com> Cc: grant.likely@...retlab.ca, linus.walleij@...ricsson.com, sameo@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, swarren@...dia.com, broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mfd: tps6586x: remove gpio support from core driver On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com> wrote: > The GPIO functionality of device tps6586x is added through > platform gpio driver and it can be register as the mfd sub > device and hence removing the duplicates code which register > the gpio functionality from core driver. > > Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com> The only thing I worry about is if old defconfig files are now missing this config option and then this patch becomes an unbisectable showstopper for them because they don't get this driver by default anymore. So please make sure you've grepped around and checked that of some platforms defconfig was previously selecting the core driver, make sure it selects this driver too for the moment, it's better if they later deactivate it if they don't need it. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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