linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=Mem6HN13FOA_Ru8zC-GqGGLTsQiktLWs5bN4JD1aM3gHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:51:59 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>, 
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
>
> > To prove this point, I even moved the gpio-virtuser driver I'm working
> > on to drivers/misc/ too as it isn't a GPIO provider either and merely
> > a GPIO consumer with a one-shot user-space interface not conforming to
> > any standards.
>
> We *could* just create drivers/gpio/consumers/* and an entry into the
> top-level drivers/Kconfig to have those appear right under the GPIO
> providers...
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

That would just add to confusion. GPIO consumers are all over the tree
after all.

Whatever, let's keep it in drivers/gpio/. Greg KH just shot down my
idea of putting gpio-virtuser in drivers/misc/.

Bart