linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add btgpio driver

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:57:59 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mchehab@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add btgpio driver

Hi Michael,

> This adds the btgpio driver.
> The purpose of the btgpio driver is to export all of the 24 GPIO pins
> available on Brooktree 8xx chips to the kernel GPIO infrastructure.
> 
> This makes it possible to use a physically modified BT8xx card as
> cheap digital GPIO card.

do you mind calling the driver bt8xxgpio. I am a little bit worried that
we otherwise clash with a potential Bluetooth GPIO driver at some point.
The new generation of generic Bluetooth drivers are using bt* as names
(like btsdio, btusb etc.).

Regards

Marcel


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