Re: [PATCH 135/182] MIPS: alchemy: switch to gpiochip_add_data()

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> ---
>> Ralf: please ACK this so I can take it through the GPIO tree.
>> BTW: would be nice if the MIPS GPIO drivers could move down
>> to drivers/gpio in the long run.
>
> Is there a specific reason?  I have no objections to moving it, but
> on the other hand I also like that (in this case) most/all chip-specific
> code is grouped together and not scattered around the tree.

Here is a reason. This patch series. If I could just change all that and have
the dependencies inside the GPIO tree, refactoring struggles would be
so much easier.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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