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

Mark Brown
2011-08-30T11:00:25Z

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:36:32PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 03:11 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > New GPIO drivers should really go under drivers/gpiolib and be called
> > gpio-foo.c.

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

There was some discussion of this, mostly for ARM, the general
conclusion being that sharing the code improves visibility of things for
the subsystem maintainer, ensures that the code gets reviewed (and
updated if things change) by subsystem experts and makes it more likely
that where there are things that can be shared someone will notice.