Re: [PATCH v3 54/73] pinctrl: intel: drop the wrappers around pinctrl_gpio_direction_input()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:55:07PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 2:46 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 at 14:41, Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > pinctrl_gpio_direction_input() now has the same signature as the
> > > > > wrappers around it so we can drop them.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Now, for the sake of symmetry can you add (at least to the all
> > > > Intel drivers you modified in this series) the following:
> > >
> > > Good idea but this is v6.8 material, I don't want to extend this
> > > series anymore at this point.
> >
> > Then let's postpone at least Intel and Cypress patches after v6.8-rc1 is out.
> 
> But then we'd have to postpone the renaming and we'd be stuck with
> both variants in the tree. This is suboptimal. We'd also have this
> huge series spanning two subsystems for 3 months during the v6.8
> release cycle in the tree causing conflicts and other issues.

I don't see how this is related. What I'm talking is only related to dropping
the wrappers in the drivers _after_ whatever you do with generic APIs.

> I'd prefer to merge this during the v6.7 merge window and then we can
> keep on improving it without affecting both trees. Linus will be
> taking those subsequent patches as usual.
> 
> Linus, what do you think?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko