Re: [PATCH v5] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Sunday 07 February 2016 12:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:36:35AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Exar XR17V352/354/358 chips have 16 multi-purpose inputs/outputs which
> > can be controlled using gpio interface.
> > Add support to use these pins.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> I need an ack from the gpio maintainer before I can take this.
>
> Or was it going to be reworked again?

I have not yet started with the rework, but Andy wants me to split out 
the exar related code from 8250_pci and create its own driver. But at 
the initial discussion you were against having a separate driver for it.
what will you suggest?

regards
sudip