Re: [PATCH v10] gpio: Add GPIO support for the ACCES 104-IDIO-16

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Tue Oct 27 2015 - 12:51:58 EST


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 05:42:23PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:06:58AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> > +menu "ISA GPIO drivers"
> >> > +
> >> > +config GPIO_104_IDIO_16
> >> > + tristate "ACCES 104-IDIO-16 GPIO support"
> >> > + depends on X86
> >> > + help
> >> > + Enables GPIO support for the ACCES 104-IDIO-16 family.
> >> > +
> >> > +endmenu
> >>
> >> I have five other drivers using port-based I/O:
> >>
> >> gpio-f7188x.c
> >> gpio-it87.c
> >> gpio-sch.c
> >> gpio-sch311x.c
> >> gpio-ts5500.c
> >>
> >> Do you think it makes sense to move all of these in under
> >> the "ISA GPIO drivers" menu as well? I guess they all require
> >> ISA after all.
> >>
> >> (Added their maintainers to the To: line so I can get some input
> >> on this.)
> >
> > Not all of them actually require ISA. For example gpio-sch is part of an
> > MFD device which is a PCI device. PCI bus also has notion of I/O ports.
>
> Hm, is there a more fitting symbol we should sort it under, which
> means thingofabob-that-has-portmapped I/O?

Well, there's already "Memory mapped GPIO drivers" so how about "I/O
mapped GPIO drivers"?
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