Re: [v2 2/4] platform: (TS-5500) add GPIO support

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:49:55AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Should they?  It seems a lot more reasonable to have them collected
> > > by platform than by type of device (GPIO), *unless* they are shared.

> Grouping every driver for this platform was one of the main comments of
> my first RFC set of patches. And indeed, the GPIO driver is really
> specific to this platform, so it won't be shared.

That's the case for a lot of the ARM ones too, the same considerations
apply there.  There's generally a problem with people working needlessly
in isolation and a fairly low burden for subsystem maintainers.
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