On 09/04/2013 05:29 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > Add gpiod_get() and gpiod_put() functions that provide safer handling of > GPIOs. > > These functions put the GPIO framework in line with the conventions of > other frameworks in the kernel, and help ensure every GPIO is declared > properly and valid while it is used. > diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h > +struct gpio_desc *__must_check gpiod_get(struct device *dev, > + const char *con_id); > +void gpiod_put(struct gpio_desc *desc); It might be nice to add an "int index" parameter to this function. For example, a bit-banged parallel bus protocol driver might have 1 chip-select GPIO, 1 clock GPIO, and 8 data GPIOs. gpiod_get(dev, "bus", 0)..gpiod_get(dev, "bus", 7) might be nicer than gpiod_get(dev, "bus0")..gpiod_get(dev, "bus7")? Possibly for client-simplicity, implement both gpiod_get(dev, con_id) (as an inline wrapper for ...) and gpiod_get_index(dev, con_id, index)? In DT terms, this would map to: cs-gpios = <&gpio 3 0>; clock-gpios = <&gpio 5 0>; bus-gpios = <&gpio 10 0 ... &gpio 17 0>; ... and with the mapping table registration mechanism, we could presumably add "int index" to struct gpiod_lookup. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
