Hans de Goede wrote: sorry - I should have changed the subject-line earlier. > > I've thought about merging these too, but there actually a number of > subtile differences which when all added together make it easier to > just keep 2 versions: reminds me of a pointless stupidity in pc87360 gpio. the gpio unit has 29 gpios in 4 8 bit ports, 2 of them have extra functionality. sofar so good. but their address map gives 4 addys per port for ports 1, 2, and only 2 for ports 3,4 this complicates (ok, just a little) low-level routines needlessly, and still requires higher levels to look at the index. Needless obfuscation, and impediment to transparent functionality upgrades. IMHO. /me says, thinking of my past errors, and their legacy ;-)
