[PATCH 5/9] gpio: Add Fujitsu MB86S7x GPIO driver

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Vincent Yang
<vincent.yang.fujitsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Driver for Fujitsu MB86S7x SoCs that have a memory mapped GPIO controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Yang <Vincent.Yang at tw.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Nuriya <nuriya.tetsuya at jp.fujitsu.com>

This is a very simple MMIO GPIO controller.

Why can this *not* just select GPIO_GENERIC and
use drivers/gpio/gpio-generic.c?

You need a smallish driver making use of the generic
MMIO library, see for example
drivers/gpio/gpio-74xx-mmio.c
or any other driver selecting GPIO_GENERIC.

Yours,
Linus Walleij