Re: [PATCH v2 001/001] gpio: AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:14:45 +0200
Tobias M__ller <Tobias_Mueller@twam.info> wrote:

> 2009/6/2 Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>:
> > Andres Salomon wrote:
> >> As far as Tobias's driver, one major difference between our drivers is
> >> that mine doesn't grab the entire PCI device.  This is because other
> >> drivers (ie, the MFGPT driver) will want to share the PCI device.
> >
> > Also SMBUS. In fact, they *must* share the PCI device if they all want to
> > play well together, so that alone would probably push us toward Andre's
> > patch, once it gets clean.
> 
> I had SMBUS and my driver tested in parallel and there I didn't found any
> problems. But I would be fine if we would use Andre's patch. I haven't know
> about, so that's why I tried my own. :)
> 
> I see some other problem's on Andre's patch:
> - He allows the use of PIN 23 which is reserved
> - No special handling is done for 28, which is a GPIO, but
>   serves as Power Button as well
> - OUT_AUX1/OUT_AUX2 should be disabled by default
>   if pin is configured as in output
> - IN_AUX should be disabled by default is pin is
>   configured as in input
> 
> And, if I request a GPIO by userspace via sysfs, on my system it's an
> input pin by default. So my driver initializes a GPIO as an input by default.
> But I don't know if this is default or system specific. I didn't found anything
> about this in the gpio docs.
> 
> So maybe we should decide whether we take Andre's or my approach
> and then adjust it.
> 

I think I'll drop gpio-amd-cs5535-cs5536-gpio-driver.patch while you
guys sort all this out, please.