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

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 09:15:38 EST


On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 02:34:44PM +0300, 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:

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> > > >> > > > 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 Alan or Mika to step in as at least a
> > designated reviewer for that)
>
> I suggest Alan to be the reviewer if that's okay for him :)

If he agrees, he can provide a patch on top of my series to move Nova
Lake and add himself to the MAINTAINERS at the same time.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko