Current status of interrupt handling capability of pca953x gpio driver.

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Mar 2 19:04:01 EST 2010


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:42:20 -0000 (GMT)
"Marc Zyngier" <maz at misterjones.org> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, March 1, 2010 16:18, javier Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I saw a recent mail from Marc Zyngier on December about adding interrupt
> > handling capability to pca953x gpio driver. (
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2009-December/006651.html
> > )
> > There has not been any activity since then (or at least I couldn't find
> > anything). What is the status regarding to mainline of these features?
> >
> > Have changes proposed by Marc Zyngier accepted? If not, what points have to
> > be improved?
> 
> The patch is currently at it's 4th iteration (posted in February on LKML
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/5/282) and sitting in Andrew Morton's mm tree.
> It also has been successfully used on Blackfin boards.
> 
> When it comes to mainline merging, I really have no clue. The patch received very
> little public comment (I only received a few private emails from people using it).
> 
> So if someone higher up in the food chain wants to carry that patch in his tree
> and push it upstream, I can give it a respin.
> 

I was planning on merging

gpio-pca953xc-add-interrupt-handling-capability.patch
gpio-pca953xc-add-interrupt-handling-capability-fix.patch
gpio-pca953xc-add-interrupt-handling-capability-v4.patch

into 2.6.34 unless someone stops me.



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