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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:05:11 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@....com>,
Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@....com>,
Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
Marek BehĂșn <kabel@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] gpiolib: cdev: Utilize more bitmap APIs
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:23:12PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 04:59:34PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 09:49:35PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 03:17:06PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 09:32:11AM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
...
> > > > Yet, it opens a way to scale this in case we might have v3 ABI that let's say
> > > > allows to work with 512 GPIOs at a time. With your code it will be much harder
> > > > to achieve and see what you wrote about maintenance (in that case).
> > >
> > > v3 ABI?? libgpiod v2 is barely out the door!
> > > Do you have any cases where 64 lines per request is limiting?
> >
> > IIRC it was SO question where the OP asks exactly about breaking the 64 lines
> > limitation in the current ABI.
> >
> > > If that sort of speculation isn't premature optimisation then I don't know
> > > what is.
> >
> > No, based on the real question / discussion, just have no link at hand.
> > But it's quite a niche, I can agree.
>
> Let me know if you find a ref to that discussion - I'm curious.
Here it is (read comments as well):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76307370/control-gpio-from-linux-userspace-with-linux-gpio-h
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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