Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH V2 3/5] gpio: add support for AMS AS3722 gpio driver

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok, I was thinking that we should not call gpiochip_add() from the pin
> control driver in any new driver

No that is not the case.

There are many combined pinctrl+GPIO drivers that register
both pinctrl devices and gpio_chip and also irq_chip.

When the driver and hardware does multiple things like that
in the same register range it is usually best to put the combined
driver in drivers/pinctrl.

> So this gpio driver can be moved now to the pincntrl folder and can use
> pincontrol and gpio framework.

Thanks!

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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