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Message-ID: <20110504143757.GB15967@pulham.picochip.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:37:57 +0100
From: Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>,
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 03:31:31PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 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.
OK, so here's what I've got so far (patches attached). I've updated the
basic_mmio_gpio library with your initial lkml patch and updated it to
allow bgpio_chip to be embedded in another structure. I've also
attempted to convert over the bt8xx and langwell drivers but they're a
little rough around the edges in places (and untested as I don't have
the hardware).
Jamie
View attachment "0001-basic_mmio_gpio-split-into-a-gpio-library-and-platfo.patch" of type "text/plain" (14587 bytes)
View attachment "0002-gpio-bt8xxgpio-convert-to-use-basic_mmio_gpio-librar.patch" of type "text/plain" (5728 bytes)
View attachment "0003-gpio-langwell-convert-to-use-basic_mmio_gpio-library.patch" of type "text/plain" (10879 bytes)
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