From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/17] Remove GENERIC_GPIO from architecture code
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:50:49 +0000
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On Thursday 14 March 2013, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > For submitting the pull request to Torvalds in the end you will need
> > to create a signed tag. Do you have a signed GPG key? Else it's
> > about time to create a key and start collecting signatures... then you
> > can also get a repo at kernel.org in the future.
> 
> I have one or two signatures of kernel devs on my GPG key, but I
> thought that maybe this set could be pulled by you or Grant once it
> has undergone enough testing - it's not like I intend to push
> regularly on this branch.
> 
> If I understand correctly the reason for having this in its own branch
> is to be able remove it quickly would it attempt to screw the dog.

The main reason I think is so that branch can be pulled by other
people that don't want to pull in all of the other gpio changes.

It could still just be another branch in the existing gpio tree,
at least once everyone is happy with the state of the patches.

	Arnd
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