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

From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm9713: add gpio chip
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:48:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151106094828.GD3378@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151106092733.GG2549@ck-lbox>

On Fri, 06 Nov 2015, Charles Keepax wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:29:13AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Apologies Lee, we are discussing a patch that adds a GPIO driver
> into an AC97 CODEC. I had suggested that perhaps we should put
> the GPIO driver as a seperate driver under GPIO and link the two
> with an MFD. But Mark has already replied in the thread to say
> that he doesn't think that will be necessary. Although he did
> raise some concerns that perhaps it could be done more generally
> as it should apply to other AC97 CODECs as well.
> 
> So I think you can probably safely ignore this for now, sorry
> for the noise.

Roger that.  Thanks for the explanation.

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Lee Jones
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