linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] GPIO: Add GPIO support for the ACCES 104-IDIO-16

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:14:47 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GPIO: Add GPIO support for the ACCES 104-IDIO-16

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:11 AM, William Breathitt Gray
<vilhelm.gray@...il.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 06:47 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

>> I'm really not familiar with PC/104, but wikipedia claims it only uses
>> ISA.  Apparently PCI/104-Plus, PCI-104, PCI/104-Express, and PCIe/104
>> *do* have PCI and/or PCIe, but it looks like the base PC/104 does not.
>
> This is correct: PC/104 is only ISA.

OK then let's drop that confusing "PCI GPIO expanders" menu.

Maybe "ISA GPIO cards" or similar is more apropriate.

> The ACCES 104-IDIO-16 board is a
> PC/104 stackable GPIO board, whose port address is configured via
> physical jumper switches on the board; it is not "hotpluggable." For
> this reason, the CONFIG_104_IDIO_16_BASE option should be set to the
> same port address physically configured on the board.

I think the pattern in the kernel is to support such configuration for ISA
is with module parameters, not with compile-time constants. So switch
that base to use a module parameter.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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