Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] gpio: gpio-wcove: Fix GPIO control register offset calculation

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> General-purpose input/output - yeah that sounds like something
>> going in/out of the system right?
>
> It's become an ACPI interface for controlling all sorts of system state
> in a way that works nicely in Windows. Rightly or wrongly that's the
> situation and we are still the tail not the dog.

I see. Well I maintain it right now and I want these systems to work
so I guess I just have to carry it forward like this, sigh.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Yours,
Linus Walleij