VME and the staging tree

Martyn Welch martyn.welch at ge.com
Mon Apr 30 08:07:21 UTC 2012


On 27/04/12 09:07, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> Martyn, is there any reason the driver for the GE PIO2 card be left in staging?
> Or is it just for uniformity; ie. all VME device drivers stay in staging?
> 

The PIO2 is essentially a IO device (ok, it also provides some timers, but
they are rather slow by todays standards) and as such is implemented as a GPIO
driver. I think it would make more sense to get this driver accepted under
drivers/gpio/.

Martyn

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