linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] gpio: implement the configfs testing module

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Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:17:10 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] gpio: implement the configfs testing module

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:32:24PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:14 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> >
> > This series adds a new GPIO testing module based on configfs committable items
> > and sysfs. The goal is to provide a testing driver that will be configurable
> > at runtime (won't need module reload) and easily extensible. The control over
> > the attributes is also much more fine-grained than in gpio-mockup.
> >
> > This series also contains a respin of the patches I sent separately to the
> > configfs maintainers - these patches implement the concept of committable
> > items that was well defined for a long time but never actually completed.
> >
> > Apart from the new driver itself, its selftests and the configfs patches, this
> > series contains some changes to the bitmap API - most importantly: it adds
> > devres managed variants of bitmap_alloc() and bitmap_zalloc().

> FYI The configfs patches from this series have been on the mailing
> list for months (long before the GPIO part) and have been re-sent
> several times. You have neither acked or opposed these changes. I
> don't want to delay the new testing driver anymore so I intend to
> apply the entire series and take it upstream through the GPIO tree by
> the end of this week.

Fine with me, feel free to add
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
where it's appropriate.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko