Re: [PATCH v2] POWER: Add gpio charger driver

[Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:17:41PM -0700, Rhyland Klein wrote:
[...]
> > Hm... I guess it can be, but on the other hand most platform bus chargers
> > type
> > devices can be, because the pda_power driver is keep pretty generic with
> > custom init,
> > status and exit callbacks.
> > 
> > - Lars
> 
> I didn't see any more discussion on this. Is the plan to integrate
> the gpio-charger driver as is or to instead try to integrate support
> for this into pda_power?

Sorry for the delayed response, and thanks for the pings! ;-)

The main thing I'm afraid of is duplication. I.e. someday you
will want debouncing (include/linux/pda_power.h's wait_for_status,
wait_for_charger parameters) support, regulators support etc.

And your gpio driver will look very similar to pda_power.

So I'd vote for adding the GPIO functionality to pda_power, and
refactoring it if needed.

Though, if there are strong objections against this idea, I
can merge the GPIO driver, and let's see how things will evolve.

Thanks!

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