[PATCH v2 0/4] Move plat-mxc gpio driver into drivers/gpio

[grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely)]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com> wrote:
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Russell,
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:52:01AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:33:48AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>> >> > ?arch/arm/plat-mxc/gpio.c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?| ?361 -------------------
>>> >> > ?drivers/gpio/gpio-mxc.c ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | ?433 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> >>
>>> > My bad here. ?I should have used 'git diff --stat -M' to show the
>>> > the following.
>>> >
>>> > .../arm/plat-mxc/gpio.c => drivers/gpio/gpio-mxc.c | ?216 +++++++++++++-------
>>> >
>>> >> I'm wondering why just moving this driver into drivers/gpio has
>>> >> resulted in it growing by 72 lines - and it's not clear from the
>>> >> diffs why that is because of the way they're broken up.
>>> >>
>>> > Yes, I agree. ?But when I did something like that to ease the review,
>>> > people think it's not necessary :)
>>> >
>>> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1143257
>>>
>>> The issue was bisectability: it looked like the build would break
>>> after applying the first patch. ?The first patch should move the
>>
>> Yes, the build would break only if you change Kconfig/Makefile to
>> actually build it. ?The patch does not enable the build of the driver
>> in the patch.
>>
>>> driver without breaking the build, and then you can follow up with
>>> driver fixes. ?I don't want to see functional changes mixed in with
>>> the file move change.
>>>
>> Understood. ?Do you want me to resend the gpio-mxs and gpio-mxc patch
>> sets for that? ?Or can I follow the practice you and Russell
>> suggested in the future posts? ?I have learnt the lesson.
>
> Please repost.

An you can add in any acked-by you've received on these patches.

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