On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 8:00 PM Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The goal of this series to add support for the GPIO controller on the > Etron EJ168/EJ188/EJ198 controllers. This overall is a fine driver, but have you considered the option of just implementing the GPIO chip in drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c? There are several USB serial adapters that have a GPIO chip embedded and we just add the GPIO chip into the serial driver. I have done the same with some networking switches. It is perfectly fine for drivers outside of drivers/gpio to occasionally define a minor GPIO chip if GPIO is not their primary function. Please consider simply activating the XHCI driver and make it instantiate a GPIO chip if it happens to be an EJ168/EJ188/EJ198 controller. Yours, Linus Walleij
