[PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls
David Brownell
david-b at pacbell.net
Sat Oct 18 07:24:42 EST 2008
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> +/*
> + * Platforms can define their own __dev_ versions to glue gpio_chips with the
> + * architecture-specific code.
> + */
> +#ifndef __dev_gpiochip_add
> +#define __dev_gpiochip_add __dev_gpiochip_add
> +static inline int __dev_gpiochip_add(struct device *dev,
> + struct gpio_chip *chip)
> +{
> + chip->dev = dev;
> + return gpiochip_add(chip);
> +}
> +#endif /* __dev_gpiochip_add */
This is pretty ugly, especially the implication that *EVERY* gpio_chip
provider needs modification to use these calls.
Surely it would be a lot simpler to just add platform-specific hooks
to gpiochip_{add,remove}(), so that no providers need to be changed??
> +#ifndef __dev_gpiochip_remove
> +#define __dev_gpiochip_remove __dev_gpiochip_remove
> +static inline int __dev_gpiochip_remove(struct device *dev,
> + struct gpio_chip *chip)
> +{
> + return gpiochip_remove(chip);
> +}
> +#endif /* __dev_gpiochip_remove */
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