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Message-ID: <CAHp75VcuUrpmfEHcNqtgOkOT3wf52KnF4=R0JF80+2X2AVhMNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:05:54 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:18:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
>> <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
>> > Exar XR17V352/354/358 chips have 16 multi-purpose inputs/outputs which
>> > can be controlled using gpio interface.
>> > Add support to use these pins and select GPIO_SYSFS also so that these
>> > pins can be used from the userspace through sysfs.
>> > +err_destroy:
>> > + mutex_unlock(&exar_mtx);
>> > + mutex_destroy(&exar_gpio->lock);
>> > +err_unmap:
>> > + iounmap(p);
>>
>> pci_iounmap?
>
> I thought about pci_iounmap but I saw that most of the code in
> 8250_pci.c is using iounmap, so i went in favor of the majority.
> Will change it.
Okay, let maintainers speak about it,
>> > +static void __exit exar_gpio_exit(void)
>> > +{
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +module_exit(exar_gpio_exit);
>> > +
>> > +static int __init exar_gpio_init(void)
>> > +{
>> > + return 0;
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +module_init(exar_gpio_init);
>> > +
>>
>> Useless for now. You are using it as a library.
>
> Main doubt here. If I do not give the module_init() and module_exit()
> then what entry do i keep in the Kconfig?
I don't see any problem. It's already somehow classical approach in
the drivers when core part is represented as a library (one example
comes immediately to my mind is drivers/dma/dw/core.c, I think you may
find much more in the kernel sources).
> In this v3, it is kept as
> tristate. Should that be bool then?
No, why?
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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