Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] gpio: add PMIO support to gpio-mmio

[Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:44:37PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
> <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This series is an RFC for adding port-mapped I/O (PMIO) support to
> > gpio-mmio.
> >
> > This v2 comes with all suggestions done by Linux Walleij in the
> > initial review [1].
>
> That name! ;)

Oh, I'm so sorry. :'(

>
> > For keeping compatibility with gpio_generic_chip, a new _config struct
> > was added instead of extending gpio_generic_chip_config. Using such new
> > _config struct, called gpio_generic_chip_port_config, requires a new API
> > function gpio_generic_chip_port_init() to access to that new structure.
> >
> > Besides, structure gpio_chip_reg has been transformed to union. It reflects
> > better that MMIO and PMIO chips will only use one of them, saving memory
> > as well.
> >
> > I'm still sending this as RFC but I don't know if I should send this as a
> > regular PATCH series.
>
> I think we will usually only merge infrastructure if there is also a
> consumer/user of it going in at the same time so these patches will
> need to be prepended to a driver patch.

Thank you so much. So, as far as I understand, my patches will be applied
once one or more drivers use those changes, isn't it?

All this started because I tried to provide I/O port support to gpio-menz127
however to apply those changes I have to add other changes on drivers/mcb
first. I'm currently working on it.

I'm aware there are still few I/O port-mapped I/O drivers so I would like
to continue with the TODO "task", trying to move those drivers to use this.

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Regards,

Javier R.