Re: [RFC 3/3] gpiolib: coldfire: remove custom asm/gpio.h

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:05 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Now that coldfire is the only user of a custom asm/gpio.h, it seems
> better to remove this as well, and have the same interface everywhere.
>
> For the gpio_get_value()/gpio_set_value()/gpio_to_irq(), gpio_cansleep()
> functions, the custom version is only a micro-optimization to inline the
> function for constant GPIO numbers. However, in the coldfire defconfigs,
> I was unable to find a single instance where this micro-optimization
> was even used, so to my best knowledge removing this has no downsides.

The only user seems to be QSPI chip select handling (not bit-banged
data transfer) in arch/m68k/coldfire/device.c, but that indeed depends
on CONFIG_SPI_COLDFIRE_QSPI, which is not set in any of the defconfigs.
That doesn't mean there were/are no real users, though ;-)

> The custom gpio_request_one() function is even less useful, as it is
> guarded by an #ifdef that is never true.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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