Re: [PATCH 00/03] gpio: Renesas R-Car GPIO driver update

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for the patches.

On Wednesday 13 March 2013 20:32:03 Magnus Damm wrote:
> gpio: Renesas R-Car GPIO driver update
> 
> [PATCH 01/03] gpio: Renesas R-Car GPIO driver V2
> [PATCH 02/03] gpio: rcar: Use IRQCHIP_SET_TYPE_MASKED
> [PATCH 03/03] gpio: rcar: Make use of devm functions
> 
> This series updates the R-Car GPIO driver with various
> changes kindly suggested by Laurent Pinchart.
> 
> Patch [01/03] is a drop in replacement for V1 of the R-Car
> GPIO driver. The flag in patch [02/03] is kept out of [01/03]
> to avoid changing the behaviour of the driver between V1 and V2.
> Also, devm support in [03/03] is kept out of [01/03] to make
> sure back porting goes as smooth as possible.

As I mentioned in a previous e-mail, all the devm_* functions used in 03/03 
have been available since 2.6.30. Do you really need to port that driver to 
older kernels ?

Regarding 02/03, do you plan to squash it with 01/03 for the mainline 
submission ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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