Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpio / ACPI: add ACPI support

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, November 05, 2012 02:11:03 PM Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday, November 05, 2012 02:14:21 PM Mathias Nyman wrote:
> 
> >> per-chip based numbering sounds saner, but this deals with what we
> >> currently have.
> >
> > And we need something to hook up drivers to right now.
> 
> So speaking of it I have these drivers consuming pinctrl that I need
> to hook up right now and the subsystem maintainers are NACKing
> the patches because they want a centralized solution instead of
> per-driver hooks and I get the red light...
> 
> Do you think they will change their mind and give me green light if
> I tell them I just need to do it right now? ;-)

Well, it's just a matter of fairness to me, actually.

If you allowed somebody to do something in the past, it's simply unfair
to forbid someone else to do a similar thing later, isn't it?

Rafael


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