From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] gpio: msc313: MStar MSC313 GPIO driver
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:42:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdbCB_n_jNJ+wqWWMKHG80du3kqya0vdOu41Cb4vdvOtyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105093107.GB21245@1wt.eu>
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:31 AM Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > If your SoC is only used by OpenWrt (like ixp4xx) then it is fine
> > to just use bool because that distribution is always built with an
> > image for a specific hardware, whereas distributions are generic.
>
> Speaking for myself (since I have a few now), I'm not running OpenWRT
> on mine but my own distro, and I guess most users will run either
> Buildroot or their own distro. It's unlikely that we'll see very
> generic distros there given the limited storage you'd typically have
> in an SPI NOR (16-32 MB) and the small RAM (64MB) which tends to
> discourage anyone from booting a regular distro over other storage
> anyway.
>
> Thus my guess is that most users will keep building their own kernels.
>
> But this just emphasizes your points :-)
I think that is a good argument to keep this as bool.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-05 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-11 2:48 [PATCH 0/5] Add GPIO support for MStar/SigmaStar ARMv7 Daniel Palmer
2020-10-11 2:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: gpio: Binding for MStar MSC313 GPIO controller Daniel Palmer
2020-10-12 16:10 ` Rob Herring
2020-10-16 16:36 ` Linus Walleij
2020-10-19 16:13 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-11-05 9:13 ` Linus Walleij
2020-10-11 2:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] dt-bindings: gpio: Add a binding header for the MSC313 GPIO driver Daniel Palmer
2020-10-12 16:11 ` Rob Herring
2020-10-14 9:45 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-10-14 12:17 ` Rob Herring
2020-10-11 2:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] gpio: msc313: MStar " Daniel Palmer
2020-10-16 16:56 ` Linus Walleij
2020-10-17 1:57 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-10-21 11:07 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-11-05 9:21 ` Linus Walleij
2020-11-05 9:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-11-05 9:42 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2020-11-05 15:39 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-10-11 2:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] ARM: mstar: Add gpio controller to MStar base dtsi Daniel Palmer
2020-10-11 2:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] ARM: mstar: Fill in GPIO controller properties for infinity Daniel Palmer
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