linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm/tegra: add support for tegra30 interrupts

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Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:26:26 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Gary King <gking@...dia.com>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm/tegra: add support for tegra30 interrupts

hi,

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 07:21:12PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:09:36PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > To solve this, I recommend definining ARCH_NR_GPIOs for Tegra, to something
> > large; I see that arch/arm/mach-shmobile defines it to 1024. Failing any
> > disadvantage of using a number that large, I'd go for that...
> 
> I'd suggest that we immediately start solving the ARCH_NR_GPIO
> definition a single zImage friendly way - rather than throwing a
> definition into mach/gpio.h, add this into asm/gpio.h:
> 
> #if CONFIG_ARCH_NR_GPIO > 0
> #define ARCH_NR_GPIO CONFIG_ARCH_NR_GPIO
> #endif
> 
> and in arch/arm/Kconfig:
> 
> config ARCH_NR_GPIO
> 	int
> 	default 1024 if ARCH_SHMOBILE || ARCH_TEGRA
> 	... etc ...
> 	default 0
> 
> The list should be sorted in numeric order, largest first.
> 
> This then gives us a path to eliminate the ARCH_NR_GPIO definitions
> from mach/gpio.h - and should allow more mach/gpio.h to become empty.

would it be better to just change the default value in
arm-generic/gpio.h to something very large ?

I mean, ideally that wouldn't be gpio_desc wouldn't be an array anyway
right ?

-- 
balbi

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