Re: [PATCH 3/4] cs5535: add some additional cs5535-specific GPIO functionality

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:46:50PM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:05:01 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:07:12PM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > 
> > > This adds (well, re-adds actually) handling for events/IRQs through
> > > cs5535 GPIOs.  In the wild and wooly world of CS5535, setup_event()
> > > is for assigning an IRQ to a GPIO filter/event pair, and set_irq()
> > > sets up the pair to trigger IRQs.
> > > 
> > > These should really only be used in highly platform-specific
> > > drivers (such as OLPC's DCON driver).  Sadly, because set_irq()
> > > uses MSRs, this causes the driver to become X86-specific.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpio/Kconfig       |    2 +-
> > >  drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c |   52
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > include/linux/cs5535.h     |    2 +
> > 
> > I can't take this change without the gpio subsystem maintainer acking
> > it.  Can you get that approval from them?
> 
> 
> I believe the GPIO subsystem is unmaintained (please correct me if
> I'm wrong).   David Brownell had some good input on my original
> cs5535-gpio driver patches that I sent, so I'll Cc him.  I
> think that's as close to a maintainer as we're going to get. :)

Fair enough, get his ack and agreement that I can take this through the
staging tree, and I'll be glad to do it.

> If I recall correctly, the past few of my (and others') cs5535-gpio
> patches have gone in by way of the -mm tree.

Ah, that means there's no real maintainer :(

thanks,

greg k-h