Re: [PATCH] gpio: tegra186: Add support for T186 GPIO

[Thierry Reding <thierry.reding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 05:42:33PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:53:37AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Suresh Mangipudi <smangipudi@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Add GPIO driver for T186 based platforms.
> >> > Adds support for MAIN and AON GPIO's from T186.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Mangipudi <smangipudi-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> >>
> >> Stephen/Thierry/Alexandre:
> >> Can I get your review on this Tegra thing?
> >
> > Can we hold off on this for a bit? I've got my own implementation of
> > this in my Tegra186 tree because I thought nobody else was working on
> > it. From a brief look they seem mostly similar but there are a couple
> > of differences that I need to take a closer look at (and do some more
> > intensive testing on).
> 
> Be careful about discouraging other developers internally from
> participating upstream, Thierry.

That was certainly not my intention. I do welcome any contributions,
internal or external.

> Please don't become a bottleneck for your company's contributions.
> Rewriting stuff on your own isn't a scalable model.

Like I said, I didn't rewrite this, I merely wrote the GPIO driver
because there wasn't one at the time and I wasn't aware of anyone else
working on one. Waiting for a GPIO driver to emerge would've prevented
me from making progress on other fronts.

Thierry

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