Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] gpio-exar/8250-exar: Do not even instantiate a GPIO device for Commtech cards

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2017-05-30 20:33, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Commtech adapters need the MPIOs for internal purposes, and the
>> gpio-exar driver already refused to pick them up. But there is actually
>> no point in even creating the underlying platform device.
> 
> It still feels that partially you may do stuff here, like
> renaming to
> __xr17v35x_register_gpio()
> and creating
> xr17v35x_register_gpio() wrapper.

Sorry, that remains unrelated to the topic of this patch and would be
unclean. If you want me to pull those refactorings out of patch 9, I
need to write a separate patch - no problem.

Jan

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