On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Awesome, thanks! (I guess they should all be converted to device tree though, hope that will happen...) Yours, Linus Walleij -- 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
