Re: [v2 2/4] platform: (TS-5500) add GPIO support

Mark Brown
2011-08-30T15:12:26Z

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:49:55AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> > > Should they? It seems a lot more reasonable to have them collected
> > > by platform than by type of device (GPIO), *unless* they are shared.

> Grouping every driver for this platform was one of the main comments of
> my first RFC set of patches. And indeed, the GPIO driver is really
> specific to this platform, so it won't be shared.

That's the case for a lot of the ARM ones too, the same considerations
apply there. There's generally a problem with people working needlessly
in isolation and a fairly low burden for subsystem maintainers.