Re: [PATCH] gpio: lpc18xx: convert GPIO_LPC18XX from bool to tristate

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 05:17:21 EST


On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> config GPIO_LPC18XX
> bool "NXP LPC18XX/43XX GPIO support"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> When targeting orphaned modular code in non-modular drivers, this
> came up. Joachim indicated that the driver was actually meant to
> be tristate but ended up bool by accident. So here we make it
> tristate instead of removing the modular code that was essentially
> orphaned.
>
> Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij