Re: [PATCH] i2c-core: i2c bitbang gpio structure

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Friday 09 March 2007 8:55 am, Jean Delvare wrote:

> > +struct i2c_bitbang_gpio {
> > +	int sda;
> > +	int scl;
> > +};
> 
> ...
> 
> Also, this structure alone isn't very useful. I'm waiting to see
> drivers actually making use of it before I will consider merging this
> patch at all.

The notion would be that we could have one i2c bitbanger using
the CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO <asm/gpio.h> interfaces that could work
on most platforms, using that struct for platform_data and the
usual convention for platform device naming.

I'd expect that struct would be merged as part of such a generic
GPIO bitbang driver, and would only be used by that one driver.

SPI could use such a generic bitbanger too.  Until 2.6.21 it's
been missing that last step:  it's needed platform-specific
GPIO calls, so the bitbangers were generic except for those
lowest-level hooks.

- Dave