Re: [RFC PATCH] pinctrl: Add SX150X GPIO Extender Pinctrl Driver

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To make a slot-in replacement, it misses the sx150x_platform_data management
> like the gpio version, I only made a pure DT version. It should be easy to add back.
>
> But I see it nowhere... is it really necessary ?

If that is not used in the kernel, don't care to support it.
We're not designing for out-of-tree usecases, and here apparently
out-of-tree patches would be needed to make use of it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij