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Message-Id: <200711271103.49200.david-b@pacbell.net>
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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