Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754662Ab2BPStG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:49:06 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:60300 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114Ab2BPStE (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:49:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF178EF838ED@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> References: <1328814050-22715-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> <4F34A3EF.3070207@nvidia.com> <4F360853.3050402@nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF178EF838ED@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:49:04 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] pinctrl: move the core per-device handlers to core From: Linus Walleij To: Stephen Warren Cc: Olof Johansson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Shawn Guo , Thomas Abraham , Dong Aisheng , Rajendra Nayak , Haojian Zhuang , Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Tony Lindgren 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: 1148 Lines: 27 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > Linus Walleij wrote at Monday, February 13, 2012 12:48 PM: >> >> I'm mainly thinking if the underlying driver may be subject to change I >> could just keep it out-of-tree, unless you want it merged in for some >> practical reason, then I'll just merge it. > > IIRC, people hoped that the common pinctrl bindings would make it into > 3.4. If that happens, the driver won't be unused in 3.4. > > I don't foresee any changes to the driver except those driven by any > changes to the core pinctrl itself, so I don't foresee any need to keep > it out of tree. OK however since the patches no longer mess around in arch/arm/mach-* I guess it's OK if I just throw it on the top of my patch queue with everything else rather than as a separate branch? I'll do that for now, tell me if it causes any problems! 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/