Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] gpio: Get rid of ARCH_NR_GPIOS (v2)

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi Linus,

Le 14/09/2022 à 15:03, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 12:15 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>   drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c              | 411 -----------------------
>> (...)
>>> sta2x11 is an x86 driver, so not my area, but I think it would be
>>> best to kill off the entire platform rather than just its gpio
>>> driver, since everything needs to work together and it's clearly
>>> not functional at the moment.
>>>
>>> $ git grep -l STA2X11
>>> Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
>>> arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/sta2x11.h
>>> arch/x86/pci/Makefile
>>> arch/x86/pci/sta2x11-fixup.c
>>> drivers/ata/ahci.c
>>> drivers/gpio/Kconfig
>>> drivers/gpio/Makefile
>>> drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c
>>> drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
>>> drivers/media/pci/Makefile
>>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Kconfig
>>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Makefile
>>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.c
>>> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.h
>>> drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>> drivers/mfd/Makefile
>>> drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
>>> include/linux/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.h
>>>
>>> Removing the other sta2x11 bits (mfd, media, x86) should
>>> probably be done through the respective tree, but it would
>>> be good not to forget those.
>>
>> Andy is pretty much default x86 platform device maintainer, maybe
>> he can ACK or brief us on what he knows about the status of
>> STA2x11?
> 
> I think the explanation given by Davide and Alessandro
> was rather detailed already:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yw3LQjhZWmZaU2N1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yw3DKCuDoPkCaqxE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 

I can't see this series in neither linus tree nor linux-next.

Following the ACK from Andy + the above explanations from Arnd, do you 
plan to merge this series anytime soon ?

Do you need anything more from me ?

Thanks
Christophe