Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: dwapb: Use human understandable gpio numbering.

[Michael van der Westhuizen <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 16 Jul 2015, at 9:52 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Michael van der Westhuizen
> <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> In my case, I have quite a lot of vendor-supplied code that needs the numbers to
>> be stable and backward compatible.  This quickly devolves into a discussion of
>> GPIOs in sysfs as an ABI, which is not a discussion I want to have :)
> 
> That is impossible to avoid.
> 
> What you're saying is you just want to drill a hole in the boat and not
> have a discussion whether the boat is going to float after this or
> not.

Not at all.  I was just noting that this patch will touch on this topic, and it’s not a
topic that I would weigh in on as my opinions are irrelevant in this discussion.

No incendiary topic intended :-)

Michael

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