Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] gpio: Move Intel PMIC GPIO drivers to the dedicated subfolder

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:57:04 +0200, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> For better maintenance and development experience, move
> Intel PMIC GPIO drivers to the dedicated subfolder.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  4 +--
>  drivers/gpio/Kconfig                          | 26 ----------------
>  drivers/gpio/Makefile                         |  2 --
>  drivers/gpio/intel/Kconfig                    |  2 ++
>  drivers/gpio/intel/Makefile                   |  2 ++
>  drivers/gpio/intel/pmic/Kconfig               | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpio/intel/pmic/Makefile              |  5 ++++

This makes it a very fine-grained split, I'm not sure we really need this big
directory structure when - so far - we got along with all the drivers being in
the same directory?

Look at drivers/pinctrl/intel - there's no such deep structure there.

Bart