Re: [PATCH 0/7] gpio: move ppc4xx driver to drivers/gpio and modernize
From: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-08 22:10:56
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From: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-08 22:10:56
Also in:
linux-gpio, lkml
Hi Rosen, On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 7:01 AM Rosen Penev [off-list ref] wrote:
This series moves the ppc4xx GPIO driver from arch/powerpc to drivers/gpio, converts it to be a proper platform driver using generic MMIO helpers, drops architecture-specific accessors, and prepares it for module build and COMPILE_TEST. Patches 1-4 move the driver and convert it to standard platform driver infrastructure. Patch 5 switches to generic MMIO helpers. Patch 6 drops PPC-specific IO accessors and enables COMPILE_TEST. Patch 7 adds the missing MODULE metadata so the driver can actually be built as a module. Rosen Penev (7): gpio: move ppc4xx gpio driver from arch/powerpc to drivers/gpio gpio: ppc44x: Use module platform driver helper for GPIO gpio: ppc44x: Set GPIO chip firmware node gpio: ppc44x: Use platform resource helper for GPIO MMIO gpio: ppc44x: Convert GPIO to generic MMIO gpio: ppc44x: drop PPC-specific IO helpers and rename to ppc44x gpio: ppc44x: add MODULE info
Overall a very nice patch series and happy to see that AI can assist with this kind of refactoring! I guess we should provide some slack so someone from the PPC camp can test it, and if they don't test it, then it is abandoned and we should then just apply it anyway. The series: Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> Yours, Linus Walleij