Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1033035AbbKFJ3V (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 04:29:21 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:34321 "EHLO mail-wm0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031997AbbKFJ3R (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 04:29:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:29:13 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Robert Jarzmik Cc: Charles Keepax , Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm9713: add gpio chip Message-ID: <20151106092913.GC3378@x1> References: <1446657164-25012-1-git-send-email-robert.jarzmik@free.fr> <20151104183322.GD2549@ck-lbox> <87oaf9bls9.fsf@belgarion.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87oaf9bls9.fsf@belgarion.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1552 Lines: 41 On Wed, 04 Nov 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Charles Keepax writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:12:44PM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > >> The Wolfson WM9713 provides 8 GPIOs. If the gpiolib is compiled in the > >> kernel, declare a gpio chip. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik > >> --- > > > > You should probably make a seperate driver within GPIO for this > > and then tie the two together, using an MFD. I appreciate that is > > more work but it is likely a nicer solution overall. > > I'd like to first have a confirmation from : > - Mark (Brown) > - and Lee (Jones) > > The confirmation I'm looking for states that : > - the wm9713 should have a part in the mfd tree > - the gpio part should be in drivers/gpio > - the sound soc codecs will remain as is > - if the future driver/mfd/wm9713.c is technically sound, it will be accepted > > I remember at least one example where the MFD approach was rejected from mfd > tree for pxa gpios, so I won't work unless I have a confirmation from both > maintainers. I have no idea what you're talking about. Context please? -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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/