linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Still free GPIOs using gpio

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Message-ID: <20140708115326.GU30458@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 13:53:26 +0200
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Still free GPIOs using gpio_free()

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:33:23AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Right, but Linus said we didn't need this conversion to descriptors so
> > I'm a bit confused as to what the issue he was raising was.

> Now I'm probably confusing myself...

> All drivers should as far as possible use descriptors internally, doing
> things like gpio_to_desc() only for backward-compatibility where
> necessary, with the intent of eventually ridding the integer interfaces
> entirely.

> It may be an eternal project, but hey, we are atleast two of us
> pursuing it.

OK, so in that case Russell's code should be fine then and we don't need
to do anything - great!

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