[PATCH v6] PPC440EPx gpio driver

[Stefan Roese]

On Thursday 09 October 2008, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> This patch adds support for the GPIO functions of PPC40x and PPC44x
> SOCs.

Thanks. Tested successfully on 405EP board.

I only have one comment below left.

> Signed-off-by: Steve Falco <sfalco at harris.com>
> ---
>
> I looked more closely at the datasheet.  Stefan is correct that the
> shadow registers are not needed for these processors, because they have
> separate registers for input and output.
>
> I've incorporated the other changes, with one exception.  I want
> ppc4xx_gpio_get() to return 0 or 1 (rather than Anton's comment that any
> non-zero value is ok), because when you use the new "export feature" in
> sysfs, you see the raw value returned from ppc4xx_gpio_get().  So, without
> the !!  in the return statement, you would see a strange value, like 32768
> instead of 1:
>
> 	# cd gpio208
> 	# cat value
> 	32768
>
> So, I think it is worth sanitizing the return value here.

<snip>

> +static int __init ppc4xx_add_gpiochips(void)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *np;
> +
> +	for_each_compatible_node(np, NULL, "amcc,ppc4xx-gpio") {

Since the GPIO IP-core implementation is from IBM and not AMCC I suggest to 
use a different compatible property:

	for_each_compatible_node(np, NULL, "ibm,ppc4xx-gpio") {

Other than this:

Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Best regards,
Stefan