Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935163Ab1ETBud (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 21:50:33 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:63314 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934716Ab1ETBub (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 21:50:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 02:50:22 +0100 From: Jamie Iles To: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Sascha Hauer , Shawn Guo , Linus Walleij , Jonas Aaberg , Linus Walleij , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Grant Likely , Lee Jones , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Jamie Iles Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mach-u300: rewrite gpio driver, move to drivers/gpio Message-ID: <20110520015022.GA3095@pulham.picochip.com> References: <1303910002-3333-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> <20110519085638.GA26816@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20110519135631.GB26816@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20110519191156.GE2429@pengutronix.de> <0D753D10438DA54287A00B027084269764D3045B3B@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0D753D10438DA54287A00B027084269764D3045B3B@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net> 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: 1843 Lines: 40 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:18:56PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > On Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:12 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:56:32PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 02:21:27PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > >>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Shawn Guo wrote: > >>> > >>>> I start working on moving mxs gpio (arch/arm/mach-mxs/gpio.c) into > >>>> driver/gpio, and I see the possibility to go a different approach > >>>> from U300 one posted here. > >>> > >>> I've tried to figure out what relation the mail has to the U300 driver > >>> but cannot find any, more than that it's moving a driver... Please > >>> start a new mail thread. > >>> > >> I will post mxs-gpio driver once I get it done. Then please review > >> the code and see the difference between mxs-gpio and u300-gpio, > >> though these hardwares have something in common. > > > > I'm pretty sure they have something in common and even more that *all* > > gpio drivers have something in common. I wonder if it really makes sense > > to move the gpio driver to drivers/gpio without creating a common > > mmio_gpio_chip beforehand. This can't be very hard. > > Jamie Iles (cc'ed) posted some patches that extended the basic_mmio_gpio > driver so that it could be used as a library by other gpio drivers. > > Jamie, could you re-post that series to the linux-arm-kernel list for > review? Grant has applied these patches but I've put them in a public branch if that's OK rather than reposting: git://github.com/jamieiles/linux-2.6-ji.git gpio Jamie -- 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/