linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpiolib/arches: Centralise bolierplate asm/gpio.h

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:21:58 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant@...retlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au, linux@...ts.openrisc.net,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib/arches: Centralise bolierplate asm/gpio.h

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> Rather than requiring architectures that use gpiolib but don't have any
> need to define anything custom to copy an asm/gpio.h provide a Kconfig
> symbol which architectures must select in order to include gpio.h and
> for other architectures just provide the trivial implementation directly.
>
> This makes it much easier to do gpiolib updates and is also a step towards
> making gpiolib APIs available on every architecture.
>
> For architectures with existing boilerplate code leave a stub header in
> place which warns on direct inclusion of asm/gpio.h and includes
> linux/gpio.h to catch code that's doing this.  Direct inclusion of
> asm/gpio.h has long been deprecated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/gpio.h      |   59 ++----------------------------
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                   |    1 +
>  arch/avr32/Kconfig                 |    1 +
>  arch/blackfin/Kconfig              |    1 +
>  arch/ia64/include/asm/gpio.h       |   59 ++----------------------------
>  arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu              |    1 +
>  arch/microblaze/include/asm/gpio.h |   57 ++---------------------------
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                  |    1 +
>  arch/openrisc/include/asm/gpio.h   |   69 ++---------------------------------
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/gpio.h    |   57 ++---------------------------
>  arch/sh/Kconfig                    |    1 +
>  arch/sparc/include/asm/gpio.h      |   40 ++-------------------
>  arch/unicore32/Kconfig             |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/gpio.h        |   57 ++---------------------------
>  arch/xtensa/include/asm/gpio.h     |   60 ++-----------------------------
>  drivers/gpio/Kconfig               |    8 ++++
>  include/linux/gpio.h               |   34 +++++++++++++++++
>  17 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 426 deletions(-)

This looks good but I think we need to page the alpha, ia64, m68k, microblaze,
openrisc etc subarch maintainers on this patch so they have their say.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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