Re: [PATCH 1/6] gpio: make the gpiochip a real device

[Michael Welling <mwelling@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 03:06:48PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 3-1. Split gpio_chip in a static descriptor with a vtable for callbacks
> >    and other static config called struct gpio_chip, and
> >    struct gpio_device that is returned as a pointer from
> >    gpiochip_add(). It will need to be free:ed by gpiodevice_remove()
> >    after that.
> 
> This will look something like this uglyhack:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git/commit/?h=gpiochip-desc&id=610b19c1832acfdf6ff62523addfa08b76f77343
>

Lots of red and green just in time for Christmas.

Let me take a look at what it would take to recover from said theoretical stab.
 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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