Re: [PATCH] gpio: (gpio-pca953x) move header to linux/platform_data/

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Vivien Didelot
<vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch moves the pca953x.h header from include/linux/i2c to
> include/linux/platform_data and updates existing support accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On the concept:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

But:

>  drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c                 |  2 +-
(...)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
> index 426c51d..8804aec 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>  #include <linux/irq.h>
>  #include <linux/irqdomain.h>
>  #include <linux/i2c.h>
> -#include <linux/i2c/pca953x.h>
> +#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>

Why does the GPIO driver need platform data from the
I2C driver???

Can't this just be made to go away?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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