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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:08:55 +0900
From:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/17] Remove GENERIC_GPIO from architecture code

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com> 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!
>>> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>>>
>>> I bet something will break, anyway: no pain no gain.
>>
>> Since this is a pretty invasive patch series that touches a lot of
>> architectures, we should get it into a separate branch that can get
>> pulled into linux-next.
>
> Good point. Alexandre, do you have a git repo to attain this?

Would be reasonable indeed. I can publish the branch on Github, but
(sorry for being clueless) what's the procedure to add a new branch to
linux-next? Shall I write to Stephen Rothwell directly?

Alex.
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