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

Nori, Sekhar nsekhar at ti.com
Fri Aug 12 17:30:27 EDT 2011


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 18:36:07, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

I am OK either way. Its going to be Grant's call since
it will result in some churn in GPIO tree.

Thanks,
Sekhar



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