linux-kernel - Re: [patch/rfc 1/4] GPIO implementation framework

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:03:48 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	"eric miao" <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Felipe Balbi" <felipebalbi@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	"Bill Gatliff" <bgat@...lgatliff.com>,
	"Haavard Skinnemoen" <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	"Andrew Victor" <andrew@...people.com>,
	"Tony Lindgren" <tony@...mide.com>,
	"Jean Delvare" <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@...sta.com>,
	"Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Ben Dooks" <ben@...nity.fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 1/4] GPIO implementation framework

On Tuesday 27 November 2007, eric miao wrote:

>    c) removal of "gpiochip_is_requested()", and use "gpio_desc->requested"
>       instead

That's problematic for GPIO code that needs to know if a given
GPIO has been requested ... since you don't export gpio_desc[]
(and shouldn't) that functionality has effectively been removed!

So that would break two patches now in MM (mcp23s08 support, and
the avr32 platform conversion) plus others not yet merged...

>    d) make gpio_ensure_requested() use gpio_desc, and simplify the code a
>       bit

That's problematic too ... since it no longer actually ensures
that the chip gets marked as requested.  :(

Since struct gpio_desc isn't exported, it might as well be
private to lib/gpiolib.c instead of public in the header...
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