Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] gpio: add PMIO support to gpio-mmio

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
<dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think we will usually only merge infrastructure if there is also a
> > consumer/user of it going in at the same time so these patches will
> > need to be prepended to a driver patch.
>
> Thank you so much. So, as far as I understand, my patches will be applied
> once one or more drivers use those changes, isn't it?
>

More precisely: we can consider picking it up once you post a patch
that uses it proving that it's worth having it upstream.

> All this started because I tried to provide I/O port support to gpio-menz127
> however to apply those changes I have to add other changes on drivers/mcb
> first. I'm currently working on it.
>
> I'm aware there are still few I/O port-mapped I/O drivers so I would like
> to continue with the TODO "task", trying to move those drivers to use this.
>

Bart