Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756016Ab3H2RcO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:32:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:61231 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755525Ab3H2RcL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:32:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130829160830.GB25021@roeck-us.net> References: <1374486633-9737-1-git-send-email-simon.guinot@sequanux.org> <20130801134632.GY9916@kw.sim.vm.gnt> <20130829125754.GA8813@srcf.ucam.org> <521F4F95.5080103@roeck-us.net> <20130829153738.GA16306@srcf.ucam.org> <20130829160830.GB25021@roeck-us.net> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:32:10 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: add GPIO support for F71882FG and F71889F From: Linus Walleij To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Matthew Garrett , Simon Guinot , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Grant Likely , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "H. Peter Anvin" 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: 1413 Lines: 31 On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> The majority of board vendors clearly don't expect the OS to drive the >> hwmon chips - they're there for the benefit of ACPI and SMM code. That >> doesn't mean that there's no benefit in having drivers for them, just >> that the board vendors don't care about that use case and so won't do >> anything to make it easier. >> > Actually, not entirely true. Some vendors even provide software running on > Windows to access those chips (including access to fans controlled through > GPIO pins) and to provide information to the user. It might be more accurate > to say that some board vendors don't care about Linux (or about providing > access through ACPI, for that matter). > > Question here is what the Linux kernel community's policy is going to be > to handle such cases. Pragmatic or dogmatic ? The GPIO maintainer is going to be pragmatic, because it's cool to be able to control HWMON things on one's workstation. The kernel is a funnier place with these drivers, so I'm applying the patch. 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/