From: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
To: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] gpiolib: introduce for_each_gpio_in_chip macro
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:31:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249529480.16688.13.camel@ben-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE190901B7783E@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:48 -0400, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> For the record. The reason I sent this is I'm trying to work out an
> extension to gpiolib that adds gpio_port_* access to the API. Most
> of the gpiolib drivers already the necessary logic since the raw I/O
> is performed on the entire 'chip'. The API just needs the extensions
> added to request/free the port, set the direction and get/set the value.
>
> Is this a worthwhile addition?
Plenty of people seem to think so. Personally I haven't seen a great
use case except "'coz I can", but if you've got one I'd love to hear.
Have you seen http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/25/10 ? Donno what ended up
happening to that patchset..
--Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-06 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 17:27 [PATCH] gpiolib: introduce for_each_gpio_in_chip macro H Hartley Sweeten
2009-08-04 21:14 ` David Brownell
2009-08-05 0:48 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-08-06 3:31 ` Ben Nizette [this message]
2009-09-19 0:03 ` Jaya Kumar
2009-09-19 0:42 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-09-19 4:40 ` Jaya Kumar
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