On Sun, 17 Sep 2017, Linus Walleij wrote:

This converts the GPIO-based I2C-driver to using GPIO
descriptors instead of the old global numberspace-based
GPIO interface. We:

[STUFF]

- The MFD Silicon Motion SM501 is a special case. It dynamically
  spawns an I2C bus off the MFD using sm501_create_subdev().
  We use an approach to dynamically create a machine descriptor
  table and attach this to the "SM501-LOW" or "SM501-HIGH"
  gpiochip. We use chip-local offsets to grab the right lines.
  We can get rid of two local static inline helpers as part
  of this refactoring.

Cc: Steven Miao <redacted>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <redacted>
Cc: Lee Jones <redacted>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Ville Syrj?l? <redacted>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <redacted>
Cc: Heiko Schocher <redacted>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
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ChangeLog v1->v2:
- Fix a minor typo in error path (scl was sda from copy-paste)
- Collected Olof's ACK

Steven (Blackfin): requesting ACK for Wolfram to take this patch.
Ralf (MIPS): requesting ACK for Wolfram to take this patch.
Lee: requesting ACK for Wolfram to take this patch.

This ...

SM501 users: requesting Tested-by on this patch.

... loosely depends on this (until it doesn't).

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