Re[2]: [PATCH 3/5] GPIO: i.MX: Rewrite driver for using generic GPIO code

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> > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 08:18:50AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/arm/Kconfig        |   1 -
> > > >  drivers/gpio/Kconfig    |   1 +
> > > >  drivers/gpio/gpio-imx.c | 125 ++++++++++++------------------------------------
> > > >  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
...
> > > >  config GPIO_IMX
> > > >  	def_bool ARCH_IMX
> > > > +	select GPIO_GENERIC
> > > 
> > > I'm not convinced by this change. Indeed this makes for smaller
> > > sourcecode, but the binary gets over 1kb bigger. I think this is too
> > > much for no additional gain.
> > 
> > The main idea of this change is reuse code if we can have multiple
> > targets in barebox. Probably, now is too early for this.
> 
> Yeah, it may change once multiple gpio drivers are compiled into the
> binary.
> 
> BTW maybe you can lower the impact of the generic gpio driver by making
> the basic-mmio-gpio platform driver optional. It is not used by the i.MX
> part.

"basic-mmio-gpio" driver is a part of generic GPIO but it is already
a separate config symbol GPIO_GENERIC_PLATFORM.
In any case I will think about optimization this code.

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