Re: [PATCH WIP 0/6] suggested changes to gpio_buttons driver

[Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>]

Hi Ben, Dmitry,

>> <...>
>> It works for me, however I have additional fixes on top of Ben's changes. I will
>> post an updated version soon.
> 
> This "polled gpio keys" driver was your invention. FWIW, I think your
> upcoming updated version should be given consideration before
> proceeding with the collection of patches discussed above.
> 
>> The original driver was a part of a patch-set which adds support for a new MIPS
>> platform. There are a couple of patches in that series which requires this one.
>> It would be nice if the driver would be able to go through the MIPS tree to
>> avoid cross-tree dependencies.
> 
> Since the da850-evm series which depends on this patch is proposed for
> the linux-davinci tree I think that to avoid cross-tree dependencies
> they would all need to be taken in one tree. That is, unless there is
> zero chance of the da850-evm series being taken-up for 2.6.38 along
> with this driver. I have added Kevin Hilman, the linux-davinci
> maintainer, and Sekhar Nori, the da850-evm maintainer, to the CC of
> this email so that they can participate in the discussion of when and
> how the patches should be merged.
> 
> Kevin, Sekhar, do you think that "da850-evm: add gpio-{keys,leds} for
> UI and BB expanders" could be queued for 2.6.38?

Well, I had to rethink that a bit. In my original patch-set I have several
patches which must be acked by other subsystem maintainers.

Given the possibility that my patch-set will not be merged for 2.6.38 I will
drop the driver from that set so the driver can go through any tree.
Additionally I will post my changes in a follow up e-mail. Those changes goes on
top of Dmitry's changes, so the whole stuff can be folded into the original patch.

Regards,
Gabor