On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote: > On 11/22/2013 01:23 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> >> Just to clarify: you want to have ./gpio/gpio-max6650.c? >> > No, I never said that. I wanted you to register the gpio pins > with the gpio subsystem. I didn't ask you to write a separate > driver for it. > > Sure, strictly speaking one could write a top level mfd driver > and separate gpio and hwmon drivers, but at least in my opinion > that would be overkill. I also never suggested this; you brought > the term mfd into the discussion.
Why is it an overkill to write a separate gpio driver for this, and potentially also for the gpio status register of this particular MAXIM chip? Other gpio drivers in the gpio folder are also short. This would not become long either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
