Re: [PATCH 10/23] MIPS: do away with ARCH_[WANT_OPTIONAL|REQUIRE]_GPIOLIB

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

> This replaces:
> 
> - "select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB" with "select GPIOLIB" as this can
>   now be selected directly.
> 
> - "select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB" with no dependency: GPIOLIB
>   is now selectable by everyone, so we need not declare our
>   intent to select it.
> 
> When ordering the symbols the following rationale was used:
> if the selects were in alphabetical order, I moved select GPIOLIB
> to be in alphabetical order, but if the selects were not
> maintained in alphabetical order, I just replaced
> "select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB" with "select GPIOLIB".
> 
> Cc: Michael Büsch <m@bues.ch>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> ---
> Various arch maintainers:
> 
> either ACK this and I will merge it into the GPIO tree for v4.7
> anticipating no clashes, or you wait until I have the enabling patch
> upstream (patch 1 in this series, removing deps on
> ARCH_[WANTS_OPTIONAL|REQUIRES]_GPIOLIB), and you will be able to
> merge it to your arch trees yourselves for late v4.7
> (post GPIO tree merge) or for v4.8.
> 
> You can also ask me for an immutable branch if you prefer that, I
> will put the enabling patch on a branch and the patch for your arch
> on top and ask you to pull it.
> 
> Select your option from the menu, silence probably means I will
> merge it to the GPIO tree. Unless you are X86 or ARM in which case
> I will be cautious.

Warning of the snappish maintainer ;-)

For this one:

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

  Ralf