[PATCH 0/4] gpio: introduce descriptor-based interface

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Jan 17 22:15:24 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> I've tried to find platforms that don't yet use GPIOLIB and fortunately
> there are very few left:
>
> I found two that provide the generic gpio interfaces when gpiolib
> is disabled, but use gpiolib otherwise for the same hardware,
> arch/m68k/include/asm/mcfgpio.h and arch/blackfin/include/asm/gpio.h.
> I would assume that we can simply remove the non-gpiolib shortcut
> here at cost of a small overhead.

Geert/Greg: interested in looking into this issue?

The GPIO maintainers want to get rid of non-gpiolib platforms.

Yours,
Linus Walleij


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