From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965247AbbLOQQc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:16:32 -0500 Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:47781 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965158AbbLOQQa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:16:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] mfd: tps65912: Driver rewrite with DT support To: Linus Walleij , Mark Brown References: <1447869580-10416-1-git-send-email-afd@ti.com> <20151124162624.GI807@x1> <20151204120240.GW26072@sirena.org.uk> <5665E4F7.1070707@ti.com> <20151208191657.GA5727@sirena.org.uk> CC: Lee Jones , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Alexandre Courbot , Samuel Ortiz , Liam Girdwood , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" From: "Andrew F. Davis" Message-ID: <56703CCC.5060608@ti.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:16:12 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: 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 12/09/2015 06:35 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:58:47PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote: >> >>> As all of this driver should be taken though the MFD tree how >>> can this gpiolib change be handled? If we have gpio.parent it >>> will not build on MFD, with gpio.dev it will fail to build when >>> the changes are merged from the gpio subsystem. As the change >>> has not been merged into linux-next as far a I can tell maybe >>> this should be taken as is, then when the gpiolib change is >>> made this can be changed with all the other drivers? >> >> Do a cross tree merge in one direction or the other between MFD and GPIO. > > If Lee makes an immutable branch with this stuff on it I can > pull that in and put a fix on top of it (like I recently did with > the ASoC AC97 codec). I have "only" renamed > the .dev field of struct gpio_chip to .parent but I'm bombing > out another 150 or so patches today, ridding all GPIO drivers > in the kernel of container_of(). > > A bit painful but nothing to what tglx has gone through for > refactoring IRQ chips... > Is there anything I can do to help this along? This series and the tps65086 series have been blocked for months on trivial issues. (Not sure why the tps65086 hasn't been taken, it doesn't have this problem, I'd be OK with this getting stalled for a bit longer if someone could look at the other one)