[patch 1/6] gpiolib: introduce chip addition/removal notifier

[Grant Likely]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Cc'ing devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org)
>
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:50:15AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> Not till now.  Here's what I've been working on.  It's based on my
>> test-devicetree branch.
> [...]
>> As you can see, I've pretty much come full circle on the adding
>> 'automatic' OF support to gpio chips.  Originally (as you well know) I
>> was strongly opposed to any addition of OF code to the core gpiolib.
>> All of the notifier work was a response to that.
>>
>> However, now that I actually have played with the code and looked and
>> the issues deeply, I've got an entirely different opinion.
>
> ROFL :-D
>
>> (The fact
>> that OF support is being ported to more architectures is also a
>> factor.)
>
> Yeah, I guess without multi-arch OF effort such an OF+gpiolib
> integration would be very dubious. But as OF spreads to other
> architectures, and we already have of_node in the 'struct
> device'... I guess that makes sense now.
>
>> Anyway, please take a look.
>
> It works here with some small fixes (patches on the way).

Thanks Anton.  I'll look for them and pick them up.

g.