Re: [PATCH RFC] gpio: move intel drivers into their own directory

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:07:27 +0200, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 05:34:53PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 02:54:33PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:48:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 12:22:15PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> > > > In order to avoid maintainer mistakes on patch ownership: move all the
>> > > > Intel drivers into their own dedicated directory under
>> > > > drivers/gpio/intel. Don't touch Kconfig options as we historically sort
>> > > > GPIO drivers by type, not by vendor.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > > >  drivers/gpio/{ => intel}/gpio-graniterapids.c   |  0
>> > > >  drivers/gpio/{ => intel}/gpio-novalake-events.c |  0
>> > >
>> > > These are interesting drivers, not sure where to put them
>> >
>> > IMHO they should be there too. We are maintaining them both.
>>
>> Do you send PRs to Bart or you just rely on him to take the patches?
>
> I don't expect these two drives to get too much attention, and they could
> be contained nicely inside intel folder and that would help Bart to
> identify that these are Intel drivers. So your bandwidth would not suffer
> even if these two are added there. Your call.
>

I'd like to avoid a situation where we have Andy's Intel drivers under
drivers/gpio/intel/ and other Intel drivers under drivers/gpio/. I'd prefer
to move all of intel GPIO drivers into drivers/gpio/intel/ and have Andy
gather changes to them if he agrees.

Bart