From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751378AbcIGWQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:16:05 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:34012 "EHLO mail-oi0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861AbcIGWP5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:15:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44e8d692-832f-fbbf-2930-0cd7c140a754@baylibre.com> References: <1472130692-14404-1-git-send-email-narmstrong@baylibre.com> <85f4ae6f-2563-967c-1e75-28a864405f53@axentia.se> <44e8d692-832f-fbbf-2930-0cd7c140a754@baylibre.com> From: Linus Walleij Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 00:15:55 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] pinctrl: Add SX150X GPIO Extender Pinctrl Driver To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Peter Rosin , Wei Chen , Roland Stigge , Vladimir Zapolskiy , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Neil Armstrong wrote: > To make a slot-in replacement, it misses the sx150x_platform_data management > like the gpio version, I only made a pure DT version. It should be easy to add back. > > But I see it nowhere... is it really necessary ? If that is not used in the kernel, don't care to support it. We're not designing for out-of-tree usecases, and here apparently out-of-tree patches would be needed to make use of it. Yours, Linus Walleij