Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] x86/platform: (TS-5500) add GPIO support

From: Vivien Didelot
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 15:23:49 EST


Le Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:37:42 +0000,
Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:33:56AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 16:30 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > My first RFC patches set has every driver separated. As they are
> > > > really specific to the platform, people seem to agree with
> > > > grouping them, mainly because they won't be shared. I changed
> > > > that in the following patches sets, and X86 maintainers seemed
> > > > to be ok with that.
>
> > It looks like things are going back and forth a bit. If I were
> > Vivien, I would be a bit frustrated by now and be close to giving
> > up (Vivien, I really commend you for your patience).
>
> OTOH I just looked back and saw that some of the review comments I
> just made were also made against the first version of this driver I
> noticed (v2) but appear to have been ignored, the request tracking
> stands out.
>
> > Is there a written guideline or policy people can look and point to
> > if/when something like this comes up ? Otherwise we may have the
> > LED/GPIO/xxx maintainers point one way, the X86 maintainers point
> > the other way, and thus may have reached a complete deadlock.
>
> I'm not sure I'm seeing much conflict here TBH, looking at the above
> and the history I have to hand I'd say it's reading like the x86
> maintainers aren't fussed either way and the people doing kernel wide
> work on things like this prefer getting stuff integrated into the
> frameworks.

Thanks for the comments. I'll then move the GPIO driver back to
drivers/gpio and fix what Mark pointed out.

I Cc Richard Purdie, to have his maintainer view on the platform LED
declaration. Is it ok in the ts5500_led.c platform file, or should it
better be moved into drivers/leds/leds-ts5500.c, or maybe directly
declared in the main ts5500.c platform code?

Thanks,
Vivien.

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