linux-kernel - Re: gpio-ucb1400

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Date:	Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:06:43 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: gpio-ucb1400

Le dimanche 31 mars 2013 à 19:19 +0200, Marek Vasut a écrit :
> Dear Guenter Roeck,
> > Jean is absolutely right - it should get fixed, or the driver should be
> > dropped if no one is using it anyway.
> 
> I think ARM/palmtc was using this.

My point was, the upstream gpio-ucb1400 driver in its current form is
unusable (on top of being ugly.) I have no doubt that someone used that
driver successfully in some external kernel tree, but the code that was
merged upstream is incomplete and no good.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3

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