linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: ath79: Remove the unused GPIO function API

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Message-ID: <20150708105514.1156aba3@tock>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:55:14 +0200
From:	Alban <albeu@...e.fr>
To:	Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>
Cc:	Aban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>,
	Linux MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: ath79: Remove the unused GPIO function API

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 19:58:32 +0300
Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com> wrote:

> 2015-07-03 12:11 GMT+03:00 Alban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>:
> > To prepare moving the GPIO driver to drivers/gpio remove the
> > platform specific pinmux API. As it is not used by any board,
> > and such functionality should better be implemented using the
> > pinmux subsystem just removing it seems to be the best option.
> >
> For reference: OpenWRT uses this functions to activate UART.

The pinctrl-single driver should be usable for all SoC where this code
was used. I haven't tried it yet, but it should only be a matter of
writing the DTS down.

Alban
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