linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: brcmstb: allow 0 width GPIO banks

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:26:01 -0700
From:   Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@...il.com>
To:     Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: brcmstb: allow 0 width GPIO banks

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:48 PM <justinpopo6@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>
>
> Sometimes we have empty banks within the GPIO block. This commit allows
> proper handling of 0 width GPIO banks. We handle 0 width GPIO banks by
> incrementing the bank and number of GPIOs, but not initializing them.
> This will mean a call into the non-existent GPIOs will return an error.

This is clearer now; thanks for rewording!

>
> Also remove "GPIO registered" dev print. This information is misleading
> since the incremented banks and gpio_base do not reflect the actual GPIOs
> that get initialized. We leave this information out since it is already
> printed with dev_dbg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>

Looks like I'm a bit late on the response, but in case you feel like
adding it Linus:

Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@...il.com>