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Message-ID: <20091210165721.GI19454@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:22 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Ryan Mallon <ryan@...ewatersys.com>
Cc: Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@...roid.com>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
Iliyan Malchev <malchev@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: GPIO support for HTC Dream
Hi!
> This is still really screwy. Why are you creating your own version of
> struct gpio_chip in addition to the one in include/asm-generic/gpio.h
> (which you also appear to include in some places). It makes the code
> extremely confusing. Other architectures use wrapper structures. Can you
> have something like this instead:
>
> struct dream_gpio_chip {
> struct gpio_chip chip;
>
> /* Dream specific bits */
> };
Well, unfortunately dream's gpio_chip definition is completely
different to the one from include/asm-generic. I'll do the rename.
> The name of this function also needs to be changed to something less
> generic since it is being exported globally.
Well, arm only ever supports one subarch, so...
Pavel
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