On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2014 11:45:01 Alexandre Courbot wrote: >> >> Actually we are not that far from being able to do completely without >> any GPIO number, and maybe that's what we should aim for. I think the >> only remaining offender is the sysfs interface. If we could reach GPIO >> controllers through a fixed path and just export their GPIOs there, I >> believe we would have fixed the whole issue. > > What about the hundreds of board files and device drivers that still > reference hardcoded gpio numbers? The problem seems mostly solved for > anything that uses DT, but there are some architectures and a number > of ARM platforms that don't use DT and probably never will. > > I would assume they could all be changed to use gpiod_lookup tables, > but that's a lot of work. Indeed, that's not something to expect, as I replied to Russell. Sorry about the confusion. -- 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
