linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 3/6] gpio: davinci: Redesign driver to accommodate ngpios in one gpio chip

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaEx-XyMXz4WwzQ08_vhAqhA0R29wY0Cv=u9eXTiHmBvQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:22:19 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
Cc:     Tero Kristo <t-kristo@...com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/6] gpio: davinci: Redesign driver to accommodate
 ngpios in one gpio chip

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com> wrote:

> The Davinci GPIO driver is implemented to work with one monolithic
> Davinci GPIO platform device which may have up to Y(144) gpios.
> The Davinci GPIO driver instantiates number of GPIO chips with
> max 32 gpio pins per each during initialization and one IRQ domain.
> So, the current GPIO's  opjects structure is:
>
> <platform device> Davinci GPIO controller
>  |- <gpio0_chip0> ------|
>  ...                    |--- irq_domain (hwirq [0..143])
>  |- <gpio0_chipN> ------|
>
> Current driver creates one chip for every 32 GPIOs in a controller.
> This was a limitation earlier now there is no need for that. Hence
> redesigning the driver to create one gpio chip for all the ngpio
> in the controller.
>
> |- <gpio0_chip0> ------|--- irq_domain (hwirq [0..143]).
>
> The previous discussion on this can be found here:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg132869.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij