Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761618Ab3DCN2H (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:28:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f175.google.com ([209.85.223.175]:34595 "EHLO mail-ie0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760094Ab3DCN2F (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:28:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1364562678-8945-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> References: <1364562678-8945-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:28:03 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] gpio: remove GENERIC_GPIO completely From: Linus Walleij To: Alexandre Courbot Cc: Grant Likely , Arnd Bergmann , Romain Naour , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Alexandre Courbot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1917 Lines: 40 On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > Since I have received no death threat from architecture maintainers I'd like to > proceed with the remainder of this work so that it doesn't go half-baked into > 3.10. These three patches finish the removal of the GENERIC_GPIO config option > which has been made equivalent to GPIOLIB in the previous series. It does so by > first changing all references to GENERIC_GPIO into GPIOLIB in driver code and > configuration files, and then removing the unused option from the Kconfig files > where it is declared. > > The last patch in the series confirms gpiolib in its new role as GPIO framework > by renaming CONFIG_GPIOLIB into CONFIG_GPIO, following the model used by other > frameworks. This name changing might rise concern but it seems more logical to > me and the historical gpiolib name is still mentioned in the documentation to > relieve the confusion. > > If I can get a few acks on these (or at least the first two ones) I'd like to > include them into my next branch as soon as possible so points of breakage can > be fixed. There are indeed a few new users of GENERIC_GPIO (CC Romain, I sent a > warning but saw no action so far) in the next tree and compilation will break > for them. > > Another issue, I could not update the Chinese documentation in a satisfying > manner due to my absence of Chinese skills. Hope that will be forgiven. > > Alexandre Courbot (3): > Convert selectors of GENERIC_GPIO to GPIOLIB > Remove GENERIC_GPIO config option > Rename CONFIG_GPIOLIB to CONFIG_GPIO The series: Acked-by: Linus Walleij Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/