Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpio: API boundary cleanups

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 9:45 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch series contains various API boundary cleanups for gpiolib:
>   - The first two patches make two functions private,
>   - The last two patches switch the remaining gpiolib exported functions
>     from EXPORT_SYMBOL() to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Good stuff, let's merge for early v5.4 (possibly rebasing if necessary).

> After this there is only a single GPIO driver function exported with
> EXPORT_SYMBOL();
>
>     drivers/gpio/gpio-htc-egpio.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(htc_egpio_get_wakeup_irq);

Kill it. People using this platform should step up if they need it.
The outoftree code was at handhelds.org and that web site is
even down. There is a copy of their git tree on github
somewhere but it is definately not maintained.

Yours,
Linus Walleij