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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: add GPIO support for SMSC SCH311x
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:02:38 +0200
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 03:40:01PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> At the very least I want the driver split up in two files: one that
> adds the GPIO driver for an arbitrary number of pins, and one
> that adds this boards' configuration. You can put the latter in
> drivers/platform/x86 or wherever, just not in drivers/gpio.
> 
> Maybe this leads to another interesting discussion on why
> ACPI is not used for configuring the board...

AFAIK there are not that many systems shipping today that have ACPI 5.0
supported and you need ACPI 5.0 in order to pass GpioIo/GpioInt resources
from a device to the driver.