On Wed, 04 Nov 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:12:44PM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > >> The Wolfson WM9713 provides 8 GPIOs. If the gpiolib is compiled in the > >> kernel, declare a gpio chip. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> > >> --- > > > > You should probably make a seperate driver within GPIO for this > > and then tie the two together, using an MFD. I appreciate that is > > more work but it is likely a nicer solution overall. > > I'd like to first have a confirmation from : > - Mark (Brown) > - and Lee (Jones) > > The confirmation I'm looking for states that : > - the wm9713 should have a part in the mfd tree > - the gpio part should be in drivers/gpio > - the sound soc codecs will remain as is > - if the future driver/mfd/wm9713.c is technically sound, it will be accepted > > I remember at least one example where the MFD approach was rejected from mfd > tree for pxa gpios, so I won't work unless I have a confirmation from both > maintainers. I have no idea what you're talking about. Context please? -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
