Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm9713: add gpio chip

Lee Jones
2015-11-06T09:29:21Z

On Wed, 04 Nov 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote:

> Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:12:44PM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> >> The Wolfson WM9713 provides 8 GPIOs. If the gpiolib is compiled in the
> >> kernel, declare a gpio chip.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> >> ---
> >
> > You should probably make a seperate driver within GPIO for this
> > and then tie the two together, using an MFD. I appreciate that is
> > more work but it is likely a nicer solution overall.
>
> I'd like to first have a confirmation from :
> - Mark (Brown)
> - and Lee (Jones)
>
> The confirmation I'm looking for states that :
> - the wm9713 should have a part in the mfd tree
> - the gpio part should be in drivers/gpio
> - the sound soc codecs will remain as is
> - if the future driver/mfd/wm9713.c is technically sound, it will be accepted
>
> I remember at least one example where the MFD approach was rejected from mfd
> tree for pxa gpios, so I won't work unless I have a confirmation from both
> maintainers.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Context please?

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