Re: [PATCH v2 001/001] gpio: AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver

[Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>]

Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:54:57 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> Back in February, Andres sent out a patch "cs553x-gpio: add AMD
>> CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver support".  AFACIT that patch does the same
>> thing that this one does, but differently.  IIRC it had a great string
>> of weird-Kconfig-related build errors and I eventually dropped it.
>>
>> What's the story here?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> My story is that I've since switched employers twice since Feb, and will
> be resubmitting the patch now that sanity has returned to my life.
> I'm planning to get to it within the next week.
> 
> As far as Tobias's driver, one major difference between our drivers is
> that mine doesn't grab the entire PCI device.  This is because other
> drivers (ie, the MFGPT driver) will want to share the PCI device.

Also SMBUS. In fact, they *must* share the PCI device if they all want 
to play well together, so that alone would probably push us toward 
Andre's patch, once it gets clean.

Jordan