Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] mfd: tps65912: Driver rewrite with DT support

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:58:47PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>
>> As all of this driver should be taken though the MFD tree how
>> can this gpiolib change be handled? If we have gpio.parent it
>> will not build on MFD, with gpio.dev it will fail to build when
>> the changes are merged from the gpio subsystem. As the change
>> has not been merged into linux-next as far a I can tell maybe
>> this should be taken as is, then when the gpiolib change is
>> made this can be changed with all the other drivers?
>
> Do a cross tree merge in one direction or the other between MFD and GPIO.

If Lee makes an immutable branch with this stuff on it I can
pull that in and put a fix on top of it (like I recently did with
the ASoC AC97 codec). I have "only" renamed
the .dev field of struct gpio_chip to .parent but I'm bombing
out another 150 or so patches today, ridding all GPIO drivers
in the kernel of container_of().

A bit painful but nothing to what tglx has gone through for
refactoring IRQ chips...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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