From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753988AbcBGNy2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2016 08:54:28 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f170.google.com ([209.85.192.170]:35374 "EHLO mail-pf0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbcBGNy0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2016 08:54:26 -0500 Message-ID: <56B74C87.3080301@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:24:15 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, Rob Groner Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar References: <1453183595-17996-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20160207064407.GA24131@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20160207064407.GA24131@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 February 2016 12:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:36:35AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> Exar XR17V352/354/358 chips have 16 multi-purpose inputs/outputs which >> can be controlled using gpio interface. >> Add support to use these pins. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee >> --- > > I need an ack from the gpio maintainer before I can take this. > > Or was it going to be reworked again? I have not yet started with the rework, but Andy wants me to split out the exar related code from 8250_pci and create its own driver. But at the initial discussion you were against having a separate driver for it. what will you suggest? regards sudip