Re: [PATCH RFC] gpio: move intel drivers into their own directory

From: Hans de Goede

Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 09:07:01 EST


Hi,

On 28-Sep-26 13:34, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 2:13 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:07:27 +0200, Mika Westerberg
>> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 05:34:53PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 02:54:33PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:48:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 12:22:15PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>>>>>> drivers/gpio/{ => intel}/gpio-graniterapids.c | 0
>>>>>>> drivers/gpio/{ => intel}/gpio-novalake-events.c | 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These are interesting drivers, not sure where to put them
>>>>>
>>>>> IMHO they should be there too. We are maintaining them both.
>>>>
>>>> Do you send PRs to Bart or you just rely on him to take the patches?
>>>
>>> I don't expect these two drives to get too much attention, and they could
>>> be contained nicely inside intel folder and that would help Bart to
>>> identify that these are Intel drivers. So your bandwidth would not suffer
>>> even if these two are added there. Your call.
>>
>> I'd like to avoid a situation where we have Andy's Intel drivers under
>> drivers/gpio/intel/ and other Intel drivers under drivers/gpio/. I'd prefer
>> to move all of intel GPIO drivers into drivers/gpio/intel/ and have Andy
>> gather changes to them if he agrees.
>
> Okay, we have two parts missing:
> - Nova Lake driver (I would need Adam or Mika to step in as at least a
> designated reviewer for that)
> - USB IO (I think we need to agree which tree it will go through, my
> bet that media tree is the best), for that we need Hans' consent

Routing the USBIO / LCJA GPIO drivers to the media-tree, with
Sakari likely doing the merging for both works for me.

Now that I'm working for Qualcomm I don't have much time anymore
for working on IPU6 / IPU7 related drivers.

Regards,

Hans