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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:11:06 +0200
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Roland Stigge <stigge@...com.de>
Cc: Stijn Devriendt <highguy@...il.com>, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
w.sang@...gutronix.de, jbe@...gutronix.de,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
bgat@...lgatliff.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Roland Stigge <stigge@...com.de> wrote:
> On 30/09/12 17:19, Stijn Devriendt wrote:
>>
>> Rules are rules, but why make the interface overly complex when
>> the multi-value file is saner, cleaner and simpler?
>
> Simply because they won't (and probably shouldn't) accept it mainline.
We, including you and Stijn *are* the mainline ... ;-)
The only reason I really dislike it is that the GPIO sysfs interface is
scary as it is, so I don't want to add to it if we can instead push to
reform it into something more sane.
Linus Walleij
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