Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpio / ACPI: add ACPI support

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Monday, November 05, 2012 02:11:03 PM Linus Walleij wrote:
>> Do you think they will change their mind and give me green light if
>> I tell them I just need to do it right now? ;-)
>
> Well, it's just a matter of fairness to me, actually.
>
> If you allowed somebody to do something in the past, it's simply unfair
> to forbid someone else to do a similar thing later, isn't it?

So if some subsystem has previously merged clk_get() for
the silicon clock pertaining to a driver the maintainer should
be fair to the pinctrl people and merge pinctrl_get() as well.
Well, they don't. But it wasn't any of your subsystems so
I don't blame you.

I have been stand-in-maintaining the GPIO subsystem
for the last two merge windows and I am worrying about the
long term viability of the subsystem if we keep doing this
without facing the real problem of the global GPIO
numberspace.

But since Grant merged the gpiolib-of.c thing and is still the
main maintainer I can atleast chicken out by referring to him
this time ... hit me back if he doesn't respond and I will
have to refactor the world or something.

Yours,
Linus Walleij