Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 0/2] gpio: allow auto population of request/free

[Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/16/2015 2:04 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> One of the changes we made is to make use of the DT based gpio-ranges
>> properly, i.e., we are setting GPIO->pinmux mapping in device tree
>> instead of hardcoded in the driver. This feature is already supported by
>> of_gpiochip_add_pin_range, called by of_gpiochip_add, called by
>> gpiochip_add.
>>
>> Due to this, I'm not sure if the Cygnus GPIO driver is suitable as an
>> example for this change.
> (...)
>> Linus, please advise how we should proceed with this.
> 
> It is more important that you switch to fetching the ranges from the
> device tree. That is a very important clean-up.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

Okay. Thanks for the clarification. Pramod (CCed on this email) will
likely be sending out various clean up patches early next week.

Thanks,

Ray
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