Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: pca953x: add powerpc irq support

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Esben Haabendal wrote:

NAK for various reasons (no particular order):

1) That patch misses a sensible changelog. See Documentation/Submit*

2) patch contains several independent changes, which need to be separated

> @@ -120,6 +124,10 @@ static int pca953x_gpio_direction_input(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned off)
>  	chip = container_of(gc, struct pca953x_chip, gpio_chip);
>  
>  	reg_val = chip->reg_direction | (1u << off);
> +
> +	if (reg_val == chip->reg_direction)
> +		return 0;
> +

 This is an optimization of its own value.

3) it breaks the driver. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/6/177 for a
   detailed explanation

4) the virq/powerpc churn is horrible and I bet there are sane ways to
   solve this, but it leave this to the powerpc experts.

Thanks,

	tglx