Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] gpio: make gpiod_to_offset() available for other users

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Mon Dec 2 14:00:04 AEDT 2019



On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, at 03:55, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Currently gpiod_to_offset() is a gpio-subsystem private function which
> is used by the gpiolib itself and by the aspeed gpio driver. The time
> has shown that there are other drivers as well which need this
> information in some special cases e.g. MFD drivers. The patch makes the
> function public but you need to explicit add the <linux/gpio/private.h>
> include. See discussion [1] for more information.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/27/357
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> v3:
> - former patch description was "gpio: add support to get local gpio number"
> - adapt commit message and description to reflect new state
> - don't add wrapper instead use the already existing gpiod_to_offset
> - move gpiod_to_offset from gpiolib.h into gpiolib.c
> - move declaration into linux/gpio/private.h
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c   | 11 +++++------

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>


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