Re: [PATCH v1] gpio: acpi: Add managed variant of acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios()

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Introduce device managed variant of acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() and its
> counterpart acpi_dev_remove_driver_gpios().
>
> The functions in most cases are used in driver's ->probe() and
> ->remove() callbacks, that's why it's useful to have managed variant of
> them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This is supposed to go through GPIO tree.
>
> Linus, can you create an immutable branch that other subsystems can use
> it if needed?

I have created ib-acpi-devm in the GPIO tree based on v4.11-rc1, applied
this patch and merged that into my devel branch.

Anyone who needs it can grab that branch, I will push it out later.

Yours,
Linus Walleij