[PATCH 08/19] mach-davinci: move DaVinci TNET GPIO driver to GPIO subsystem

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Aug 11 09:06:07 EDT 2011


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Nori, Sekhar <nsekhar at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 17:47:19, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>
>> As per example from the other ARM boards, push the DaVinci TNET
>> GPIO driver down to the GPIO subsystem so it can be consolidated.
>>
>> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
>> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> There should be no need of this since the TNETV107x
> GPIO can simply be supported using the basic MMIO GPIO
> driver. I submitted patches for that a while back
> but have some comments from Grant to address. He requested
> some changes to be done to the basic MMIO GPIO driver
> itself.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/5/16
>
> I do plan to rework those patches and post them back.

OK I will keep this around in case it doesn't happen
soon, it certainly does not make matters worse
anyway.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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