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From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:22:15 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] gpio: Get rid of ARCH_NR_GPIOS (v2)
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 4:13 PM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> Le 14/09/2022 =C3=A0 15:03, Arnd Bergmann a =C3=A9crit :
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 12:15 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >>>>>   drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c              | 411 ------------------=
-----
> >> (...)
> >>> sta2x11 is an x86 driver, so not my area, but I think it would be
> >>> best to kill off the entire platform rather than just its gpio
> >>> driver, since everything needs to work together and it's clearly
> >>> not functional at the moment.
> >>>
> >>> $ git grep -l STA2X11
> >>> Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
> >>> arch/x86/Kconfig
> >>> arch/x86/include/asm/sta2x11.h
> >>> arch/x86/pci/Makefile
> >>> arch/x86/pci/sta2x11-fixup.c
> >>> drivers/ata/ahci.c
> >>> drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> >>> drivers/gpio/Makefile
> >>> drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c
> >>> drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
> >>> drivers/media/pci/Makefile
> >>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Kconfig
> >>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Makefile
> >>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.c
> >>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.h
> >>> drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> >>> drivers/mfd/Makefile
> >>> drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
> >>> include/linux/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.h
> >>>
> >>> Removing the other sta2x11 bits (mfd, media, x86) should
> >>> probably be done through the respective tree, but it would
> >>> be good not to forget those.
> >>
> >> Andy is pretty much default x86 platform device maintainer, maybe
> >> he can ACK or brief us on what he knows about the status of
> >> STA2x11?
> >
> > I think the explanation given by Davide and Alessandro
> > was rather detailed already:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yw3LQjhZWmZaU2N1@arcana.i.gnudd.com/
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yw3DKCuDoPkCaqxE@arcana.i.gnudd.com/
> >
>
> I can't see this series in neither linus tree nor linux-next.
>
> Following the ACK from Andy + the above explanations from Arnd, do you
> plan to merge this series anytime soon ?
>
> Do you need anything more from me ?
>
> Thanks
> Christophe

I will take it after v6.1-rc1 is tagged.

Bart