On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx> wrote: > SYSCON driver was designed for using memory areas (registers) > that are used in several subsystems. There are systems (CPUs) > which use bits in one register for various purposes and thus > should be handled by various kernel subsystems. This driver > allows you to use the individual SYSCON bits as GPIOs. > ARM CLPS711X SYSFLG1 input lines has been added as first user > of this driver. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx> Oh the pain. I am so ambivalent of this patch as it obfuscates some stuff about the hardware that the driver should know, while at the same time being elegant in a way. What does the ARM SoC maintainers think about this approach? Arnd, Olof, Kevin: is this something you'd like to see deployed? Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
