Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Jun 13 2024 - 09:53:31 EST


On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > To prove this point, I even moved the gpio-virtuser driver I'm working
> > on to drivers/misc/ too as it isn't a GPIO provider either and merely
> > a GPIO consumer with a one-shot user-space interface not conforming to
> > any standards.
>
> We *could* just create drivers/gpio/consumers/* and an entry into the
> top-level drivers/Kconfig to have those appear right under the GPIO
> providers...
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

That would just add to confusion. GPIO consumers are all over the tree
after all.

Whatever, let's keep it in drivers/gpio/. Greg KH just shot down my
idea of putting gpio-virtuser in drivers/misc/.

Bart