drivers/gpio is platform-neutral

Update Kconfig and Makefile in drivers/gpio to discourage inappropriate
addition of platform-specific code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix tpyo]
Signed-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
index 724038dab4caa72db78309def86ec448f259407d..7face915b963fe62a6940beccde71058a23111c4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# GPIO infrastructure and expanders
+# platform-neutral GPIO infrastructure and expanders
 #
 
 config ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Makefile b/drivers/gpio/Makefile
index 51c3cdd41b5aac95514b41e58c105208ba278e60..e53dcff49b4f650765c4f1f1017a45664feb3ccc 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/gpio/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# gpio support: dedicated expander chips, etc
+# generic gpio support: dedicated expander chips, etc
+#
+# NOTE: platform-specific GPIO drivers don't belong in the
+# drivers/gpio directory; put them with other platform setup
+# code, IRQ controllers, board init, etc.
 
 ccflags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_GPIO)   += -DDEBUG