2018-04-26 14:07 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Board files constitute a significant part of the users of the legacy >> GPIO framework. In many cases they only export a line and set its >> desired value. We could use GPIO hogs for that like we do for DT and >> ACPI but there's no support for that in machine code. >> >> This patch proposes to extend the machine.h API with support for >> registering hog tables in board files. >> >> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> >> --- >> v1 -> v2: >> - kbuild bot complains about enum gpiod_flags having incomplete type >> although it builds fine for me locally: change the type of dflags >> to int > > I like the idea and thinking behind this patch, so patch applied. > > It's a bit of code to carry, so if it doesn't see any use, I will simply > revert it :) > > But I bet you intend to follow up with some machine patches > and then it is immediately worth it. Yes, I'll be submitting patches removing the legacy gpio calls for boards in mach-davinci. Thanks, Bartosz -- 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
