linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio/gpio-generic: Add OF bindings

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:45:11 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio/gpio-generic: Add OF bindings

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:41:18AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:10:17 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com> wrote:
> > Allow the platform driver to bind through OF. The existing
> > OF machinery for setting the resource names through OF is used to
> > configure the device, so the change is minimally intrusive and
> > fully featured.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Thanks for looking at this. I've wanted this feature for a while now,
> but I haven't liked the bindings that I've seen so far because each
> individual register is broken out into separate reg tuples. Blech. Too
> much unlike existing bindings.

Thanks for looking at the patch. I agree with your comments, and will
try to find some time to fiddle with this - but I can't give it a very
high priority..

Regards,
Jason
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