On Fri, 06 Nov 2015, Charles Keepax wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > 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? > > Apologies Lee, we are discussing a patch that adds a GPIO driver > into an AC97 CODEC. I had suggested that perhaps we should put > the GPIO driver as a seperate driver under GPIO and link the two > with an MFD. But Mark has already replied in the thread to say > that he doesn't think that will be necessary. Although he did > raise some concerns that perhaps it could be done more generally > as it should apply to other AC97 CODECs as well. > > So I think you can probably safely ignore this for now, sorry > for the noise. Roger that. Thanks for the explanation. -- 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
