[PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:24:42PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 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.

Anyway most of them need some modifications to work with OF...

> Surely it would be a lot simpler to just add platform-specific hooks
> to gpiochip_{add,remove}(), [...]

We have printk and dev_printk. kzalloc and devm_kzalloc (though I
aware that devm_ are different than just dev_).  So I thought that
dev_gpiochip_* would be logical order of things...

If you don't like it, I can readily implement hooks for
gpiochip_{add,remove}().


Thanks for the comments,

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