From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 13:35:28 -0800 Message-ID: <20160207213528.GA2018@kroah.com> References: <1453183595-17996-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20160207064407.GA24131@kroah.com> <56B74C87.3080301@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52234 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750997AbcBGVf3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:35:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56B74C87.3080301@gmail.com> Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: Sudip Mukherjee Cc: Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, Rob Groner On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:24:15PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2016 12:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:36:35AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >>Exar XR17V352/354/358 chips have 16 multi-purpose inputs/outputs which > >>can be controlled using gpio interface. > >>Add support to use these pins. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee > >>--- > > > >I need an ack from the gpio maintainer before I can take this. > > > >Or was it going to be reworked again? > > I have not yet started with the rework, but Andy wants me to split out the > exar related code from 8250_pci and create its own driver. But at the > initial discussion you were against having a separate driver for it. > what will you suggest? I don't remember what my initial suggestion was at all, sorry. But I like what Peter was doing with the other tty driver splitout, so that might be the correct thing to do here. thanks, greg k-h