linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 00/17] Remove GENERIC

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Message-Id: <201303121123.18320.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:23:18 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	"Hans-Christian Egtvedt" <egtvedt@...fundet.no>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/17] Remove GENERIC_GPIO from architecture code

On Tuesday 12 March 2013, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> 
> This series makes sure the GENERIC_GPIO option can only be set through GPIOLIB 
> (and not by individual architectures), as a first step towards its removal.
> 

Nice series,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

> For most platforms, this change should be a no-op. However I would like to make 
> sure that everyone is ok with it and that nothing gets broken, as the effect of 
> changing configuration options are sometimes difficult to predict.

It's probably worth pointing out which platforms actually change with this. For
all I can tell, the only user-visible change is that m68k now cannot turn
off gpiolib any more.

	Arnd
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