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

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just send it now, in any case my series is blocked as I have not seen
> > > a consensus on what to do. Or do we? Bart, Sakari?
> > >
> >
> > If I didn't make myself clear: I would love it if there was a single source
> > of intel GPIO pull-requests (most likely Andy) for *all* intel GPIO drivers
> > even if they have additional reviewers. I'd also love for them to live in
> > a single subdirectory at drivers/gpio/intel/. Otherwise, it's still chaos like
> > right now, just worse.
> >
> > This is in line with pinctrl vendor directories. I also don't see a reason for
> > moving Kconfig options into their own vendor submenus if we keep the top-level
> > entries sorted by driver type.
>
> So, as of now it doesn't seem like an agreement among all parties. My
> opinion is that it's good to have PMIC be separated from the other
> code, although I don't know if the camera PMIC GPIO driver that is
> used with IPUx is good to go under the intel/pmic subfolder. I also
> believe that camera related drivers are the best to be handled by the
> media tree (as it's done, exempli gratia, for int3472).
>
> At the end of the day you will have a single PR from me, but it won't
> include camera stuff unless Sakari agrees to send a PR to me (which I
> think won't be the case).
>

I thought we agreed usbio would be moved out of drivers/gpio/ and into
media? That leaves intel/pmic as the only subdirectory IIUC.

Bart