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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I would go with separate patch, if maintainers are okay with
this approach.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko