[PATCH v3 0/4] gpio: driver for the RPi3 GPIO expander
Stefan Wahren
stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Wed Feb 7 01:33:24 PST 2018
Hi Baruch,
Am 06.02.2018 um 17:27 schrieb Baruch Siach:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:42:48PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>>
>>> The Raspberry Pi 3 has a GPIO expander that controls, among others, the
>>> activity LED, and the camera connector GPIOs. The GPIO expander on an I2C bus
>>> that is not directly controlled from the ARM core. The VC4 firmware controls
>>> the I2C bus, and allows the ARM core to set/get GPIO settings over its mailbox
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> This series adds support for the RPi3 expander.
>>>
>>> The driver is ported from the downstream kernel at
>>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/, branch rpi-4.9.y.
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>>
>>> * Kconfig tweaks
>>> * Check rpi_exp_gpio_get_polarity() return value
>>> * Redundant header removal
>>> * Redundant platform_set_drvdata() call removal
>>> * Small coding style changes
>> All is looking pretty good. I see Rob had some last minute comments,
>> but please rebase and repost post v4.16-rc1 so we can get this merged,
>> we need to get this upstream.
> I was about to send v4 when I saw your email. I based v4 on current LinusT's
> tree as of e237f98a9c. I guess that affected files will not change before
> v4.16-rc1, but I can wait a few more days for -rc1.
>
> baruch
>
please also address the owner issue in the driver, which was reported by
kbuild test robot.
Thanks
Stefan
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