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

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Message-ID: <20080701224124.GA31299@ska.dandreoli.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:41:25 +0200
From:	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add btgpio driver

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:04:15AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:06:38AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
> > > 
> > > How one is supposed to test this driver? I am unable to switch on
> > > the GIPO lib support in my config. I tried also allyesconfig but no
> > > trace of gpio lib stuff.
> > 
> > Really, GPIO menu is no present anywhere. While searching for GPIO
> > finds stuff, I am unable to locate and select it. I am using 2.6.26-rc8.
> 
> For what $ARCH?  GPIO menu says this:
> 
> config HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> 	bool
> 	help
> 	  Platforms select gpiolib if they use this infrastructure
> 	  for all their GPIOs, usually starting with ones integrated
> 	  into SOC processors.
> 
> and then the arch-es that select HAVE_GPIO_LIB are these:
> 
> ./arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/Kconfig:50:       select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/mips/Kconfig:803:        select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/avr32/Kconfig:90:        select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/avr32/Kconfig.orig:85:   select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:257: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:396: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:426: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:466: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig.orig:401:    select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> 
> so are you using one of those arches?

ah.. this explains, i am using x86_64. my Kconfig-foo is still too young.

thanks,
Domenico

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