On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:00:55PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:04:12AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > This is a preliminary posting of my gpio patch set. > > > > > > This patch series moves the trivial gpiolib implementations out of > > > mach/gpio.h and into asm/gpio.h. > > > > > > As a side effect of that, most of this patch series is about fixing up > > > direct includes of mach/gpio.h - this is something I've been on at > > > people over the last year or more about ensuring that they use > > > linux/gpio.h in preference. While I've blindly converted all arch/arm > > > to use linux/gpio.h (with the exception of mach/ includes which are > > > converted to asm/gpio.h), drivers were only converted to asm/gpio.h. > > > These should be reviewed and changed to linux/gpio.h. > > > > > > As a result of this patch series, several mach/gpio.h end up being > > > empty. > > > > > > Many others just contain platform private GPIO APIs and definitions. > > > > > > The last thing which mach/gpio.h is used for is to provide a definition > > > for ARCH_GPIO_NR to asm-generic/gpio.h. I've not attempted to solve > > > that issue yet. > > > > > > A small number of platforms optimize the gpio accessors for on-SoC > > > GPIOs. In the interests of consolidation, these will have to be killed > > > but this patch set does not do that yet. > > > > > > Lastly, several {mach,plat}/gpio.h needs to be looked at with a view to > > > deleting the direct include of asm-generic/gpio.h. > > > > Looks good to me, though I haven't looked closely. I imagine this > > should get merged via a branch in the arm-soc tree? > > And this is where the existence of the arm-soc tree makes things more > difficult for me. I'd normally just keep it as a separate branch in > my own tree. What I do now, I've no idea. A separate branch in your tree works too. It could even get pulled into the arm-soc tree so that it gets picked up by the daily integration test before going on to linux-next. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html