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

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

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> 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?

Yours,
Linus Walleij