Re: [PATCH 030/182] gpio: lpc18xx: use gpiochip data pointer

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Joachim  Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9 December 2015 at 14:16, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Acked-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx>

Thx.

>> Joachim: this driver looks very simplistic, it seems it can
>> be totally replaced with drivers/gpio/gpio-generic.c provided
>> that some (optional) clock handling is added to the generic GPIO
>> driver, if you have some time, please look into that.
>
> I don't think gpio-generic supports one big gpio namespace of 256
> gpios which this driver uses.

No just 8, 16 or 32 simple registers, OK. (Maybe we could make
it more generic but it seems like overkill.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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