linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] gpio: exar: Allow IO port access

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:17:41 -0400
From:   William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Qingtao Cao <qingtao.cao.au@...il.com>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] gpio: exar: Allow IO port access

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:29:13AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 7:05 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's possible that PCI device can provide an IO port resource for
> > the device. regmap MMIO currently uses MMIO by default. With an
> > additional flag we enable support for IO port accesses.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Looks clever to me!
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> I would let William have a look at it as well, as he's worked extensively
> with port-mapped I/O.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

I love how simple it is to add IO port support to these drivers now. :-)

Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>

I'm hoping to convert several of the port-mapped GPIO drivers to the
regmap API later this cycle, so it's good to see other modules making
use of this interface as well.

Thanks,

William Breathitt Gray

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