On Wednesday 10 of October 2012 09:43:25 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch modifies the pinctrl-samsung driver to register one GPIO
> > chip
> > per pin bank, instead of a single chip for all pin banks of the
> > controller.
> >
> > It simplifies GPIO accesses a lot (constant time instead of looping
> > through the list of banks to find the right one) and should have a good
> > effect on performance of any bit-banging driver.
> >
> > In addition it allows to reference GPIO pins by a phandle to the bank
> > node and a local pin offset inside of the bank (similar to previous
> > gpiolib driver), which is more clear and readable than using indices
> > relative to the whole pin controller.
> >
> > Example:
> > device {
> >
> > /* ... */
> > gpios = <&gpk0 4 0>;
> > /* ... */
> >
> > };
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This also looks good (and I think it has been discussed before)
> so needs to be applied in isolation from the regs-to-DT stuff.
Please see my reply for patch 9.
Best regards,
--
Tomasz Figa
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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