Re: [PATCH 004/182] gpio: generic: factor into gpio_chip struct

[Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The separate struct bgpio_chip has been a pain to handle, both
> by being confusingly similar in name to struct gpio_chip and
> for being contained inside a struct so that struct gpio_chip
> is contained in a struct contained in a struct, making several
> steps of dereferencing necessary.
>
> Make things simpler: include the fields directly into
> <linux/gpio/driver.h>, #ifdef:ed for CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO, and
> get rid of the <linux/basic_mmio_gpio.h> altogether. Prefix
> some of the member variables with bgpio_* and add proper
> kerneldoc while we're at it.
>
> Modify all users to handle the change and use a struct
> gpio_chip directly. And while we're at it: replace all
> container_of() dereferencing by gpiochip_get_data() and
> registering the gpio_chip with gpiochip_add_data().
>
> Cc: arm@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-samsung-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> ARM SoC folks and Lee: it would be great if you could
> ACK the few lines hitting arch/arm/* and drivers/mfd/* in this
> so I can take it through the GPIO tree.
> ---

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>  drivers/gpio/gpio-brcmstb.c             |  80 ++++-----

For brcmstb:

Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@xxxxxxxxx>
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