[PATCHv3 1/3] gpio: add a driver for the Synopsys DesignWare APB GPIO block

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 02:48:40PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark Brown
> <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:53:16PM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> >> The Synopsys DesignWare block is used in some ARM devices (picoxcell)
> >> and can be configured to provide multiple banks of GPIO pins.
> >>
> >> v3:   - depend on rather than select IRQ_DOMAIN
> >>       - split IRQ support into a separate patch
> >> v2:   - use Rob Herring's irqdomain in generic irq chip patches
> >>       - use reg property to indicate bank index
> >>       - support irqs on both edges based on LinusW's u300 driver
> >
> > Put stuff like this after the ---, it shouldn't end up in git history.
> 
> The other day I was being told the exact opposite by Grant
> Likely, so which one is it?

It's the preference of whatever maintainer will actually be picking up
the patch.  :-)  There is no definitive answer.