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Message-ID: <20110504113131.GA639@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:31:31 +0400
From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To: Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@....linux.org.uk,
tglx@...utronix.de, arnd@...db.de, nico@...xnic.net,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/7] gpio: extend basic_mmio_gpio for different
controllers
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:09:39PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:34:15AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:04:08PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The advantage that Grant's proposal has though is that the user can
> > > override the gpio_chip callbacks. When I tried porting over some
> > > existing ARM platforms, one of the blocking issues was that lots of
> > > platforms had some annoying small detail that was slightly different
> > > (such as doing muxing in the _get() callback or needing a to_irq
> > > callback).
> > >
> > > If we make bgpio_chip public and return that from bgpio_probe
> > > unregistered then the calling code can override some of the methods then
> > > register the gpio_chip.
> >
> > Oh, that makes sense, right.
>
> I've just given this a try and it largely works, but it's probably
> better if we allow bgpio_chip to be embedded in other structures. For
> example, the langwell driver has a gpio_to_irq callback that we would
> need to get the IRQ base for the bank. We could add a void *priv member
> to bgpio_chip but that doesn't feel quite right.
>
> So,
> int bgpio_init(struct bgpio_chip *bgc, struct device *dev,
> unsigned long sz, void __iomem *dat, ...)
>
> rather than a probe() that returns the bgpio_chip?
Sounds good to me.
Thanks,
--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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