Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpio: pxa: convert to one gpiochip
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Dec 10 2015 - 10:04:27 EST
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The pxa gpio IP is provided by one chip, which holds multiple banks.
>
> Another reason the driver should register only one gpiochip instead of
> multiple gpiochips (ie. 1 per each bank) is that for pincontrol and
> devicetree integration (think gpio-ranges), it's impossible to have the
> contiguous pin range 0..127 mapped to gpios 0..127.
>
> This patch, amongst other thinks, paves the path to loosen the bond with
> the global structure variable pxa_gpio_chip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>
Patch applied.
Since noone else seems to care, would you consider sending a patch
to MAINTAINERS listing yourself as maintainer of this GPIO driver?
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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