Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Nov 25 2019 - 05:47:18 EST


On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 13:47:30 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> There is a config item CONFIG_SIMPLE_GPIO which
> provides simple memory mapped GPIOs specific to powerpc.
>
> However, the only platform which selects this option is
> mpc5200, and this platform doesn't use it.
>
> There are three boards calling simple_gpiochip_init(), but
> as they don't select CONFIG_SIMPLE_GPIO, this is just a nop.
>
> Simple_gpio is just redundant with the generic MMIO GPIO
> driver which can be found in driver/gpio/ and selected via
> CONFIG_GPIO_GENERIC_PLATFORM, so drop simple_gpio driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8795a739e5c72abeec51caf36b6df2b37e5720c5

cheers