Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add support for monitoring gpio switches

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On 04/12/15 18:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:31:14PM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:
Select Chromebooks have gpio attached to switches used to cause the
firmware to enter alternative modes of operation and/or control other
device characteristics (such as write protection on flash devices). This
patch adds a driver that exposes a read-only interface to allow these
signals to be read from user space.

This functionality has been generalised to provide support for any device
with device tree support which needs to identify a gpio as being used for a
specific task.

Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  drivers/misc/Kconfig       |  11 ++++
  drivers/misc/Makefile      |   1 +
  drivers/misc/gpio-switch.c | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why isn't this in drivers/gpio/ ?

why make it a misc driver?


I thought all the drivers in /drivers/gpio were gpio drivers, rather than users of the gpio framework. Is that not the case?

Happy to move it if the consensus is that that's the correct place to put it.

Martyn

thanks,

greg k-h

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