linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio

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Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:47:11 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio

On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 13:47:30 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> There is a config item CONFIG_SIMPLE_GPIO which
> provides simple memory mapped GPIOs specific to powerpc.
> 
> However, the only platform which selects this option is
> mpc5200, and this platform doesn't use it.
> 
> There are three boards calling simple_gpiochip_init(), but
> as they don't select CONFIG_SIMPLE_GPIO, this is just a nop.
> 
> Simple_gpio is just redundant with the generic MMIO GPIO
> driver which can be found in driver/gpio/ and selected via
> CONFIG_GPIO_GENERIC_PLATFORM, so drop simple_gpio driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8795a739e5c72abeec51caf36b6df2b37e5720c5

cheers