Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] [POWERPC] QE: implement support for the GPIO LIB API

From: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:16:28 +0400

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:04:20AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
>> This is needed to access QE GPIOs via Linux GPIO API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
>> Acked-By: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt |   27 +++++
>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/Kconfig           |    9 ++
>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/Makefile          |    1 +
>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/gpio.c            |  148 +++++++++++++++++ 
>> +++++++++
>> include/asm-powerpc/qe.h                     |    2 +
>> 5 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/gpio.c
>
> didn't we talk about putting this is drivers/gpio/ ?

:-)

Yes, we did. And David Brownell politely suggested to not do this,
and instead leave it in arch/ as do all other arches for their SOC
GPIOs.

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