Re: [RFC 0/21 Continue phasing out legacy GPIO calls

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* Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> [081030 06:12]:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:56 -0700
> "ext Tony Lindgren" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Great. One request though:
> > 
> > Let's do the clean-up patches in two phases, one series that
> > applies against the mainline kernel, then additional patches for
> > linux-omap. Otherwise we'll never get out of this merge hell.
> > 
> > BTW, we should try to do the same for anything that we can already
> > patch in the mainline kernel.
> > 
> Is it most easiest to you if I leave the set aside for a while and base
> only first patch against mainline or David's recent set?

Well if possible we should queue them up for mainline via Dave's
gpiolib patches.

> Probably first conversion set is then for those board files which are
> in mainline and second set to non-mainline merged board files. Drivers
> probably can be converted gradually as they are going via their mailing
> lists?

I'd just send them all at once via Dave's gpiolib patches.

> At least with my first patch it's easy to detect from debugfs what is
> needed to convert :-)
> 
> +static inline int omap_request_gpio(int gpio)
> +{
> +	return gpio_request(gpio, "FIXME");
> +}

Yes, these are pretty straightforward patches :)

Tony
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