linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: davinci: get rid of DAVINCI_N

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYpza8A27Ypz7absfhtauB7KXvKNvHVP3UjUJ1_hEpApg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:33:56 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	"Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar@...com>
Cc:	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: davinci: get rid of DAVINCI_N_GPIO

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@...com> wrote:

> Since Davinci GPIO driver is moved to support gpiolib it has to use
> ARCH_NR_GPIOS (can be configured using CONFIG_ARCH_NR_GPIO Kconfig
> option) configuration instead of any mach/platform specific options.
>
> Hence, replace private DAVINCI_N_GPIO with common ARCH_NR_GPIOS. This is
> safe because default value for ARCH_NR_GPIOS=256 and maximum number of
> supported GPIOs for Davinci is DAVINCI_N_GPIO=144.
>
> More over, this is one of steps to re-use Davinci GPIO driver by other
> mach/platform.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Now we have a handful of people patching DaVinci GPIOs...

Sekhar: can you coordinate the different DaVinci patches? If you want me
to take a complete set of stuff at the end of the day you can give me a
pull request for inclusion into the GPIO tree.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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