On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:25:53AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:49:47AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:54:24PM +0200, Denis Carikli wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > + if (ts->of)
> > > > > + return tsc2007_get_pendown_state_dt(ts);
> > > > > +
> > > > > if (!ts->get_pendown_state)
> > > > > return true;
> > > >
> > > > Instead of special casing "if (ts->of)" all over the place why don't you
> > > > set up the device structure as:
> > > >
> > > > if (<configuring_tsc2007_form_dt>)
> > > > ts->get_pendown_state = tsc2007_get_pendown_state_dt;
> > > >
> > > > and be done with it?
> > > >
> > > I also thought about that, but the existing function does not have any
> > > parameters, while the DT version of get_pendown_state() requires to get
> > > the GPIO passed to it somehow.
> >
> > You can always have tsc2007_get_pendown_state_platform() wrapping the
> >
> Yes, but how would you pass the GPIO number to the
> get_pendown_state_dt() function? Global variables are just ugly.
You'd have
get_pendown_state_dt(struct tsc *)
get_pendown_state_platform(struct tsc *)
{
return ts->get_platform_pendown_state();
}
and youd'd have
struct tsc {
...
bool (*get_pendown_state)(struct tsc);
bool (*get_platform_pendown_state)(void);
>
> > call. Or we just go and fix board code.
> >
> That's IMO a better option, but not easy to achieve without breaking
> anything. The in-kernel platforms would be easy to fix, but there may be
> external users that still use the old hook, so you can't just remove it
> or change its semantics.
Sure can - they are out of tree after all.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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