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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 8:10 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

...

> >  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.

These have a separate MAINTAINERS entry and not that common GPIO
drivers with the rest.

Basically the whole series follows the split that we have in the
MAINTAINERS already. One patch per group of the drivers / MAINTAINERS
record.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko