Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] alix2: supplement driver to include GPIO button support

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:31:42 -0700
Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> From: "Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
> 
> GPIO 24 is used in reference designs as a soft-reset button, and
> the alix2 is no exception. Add it as a gpio-button.
> 
> Use symbolic values to describe BIOS addresses.
> 
> Record the model number.
> 
> Changes v2 and v3 per Andres:
> Use DMI to detect the board instead of proposed coreboot library;
> Don't make including <linux/dmi.h> conditional on CONFIG_DMI;
> Ditto for calling dmi_get_system_info() in alix_present_dmi();
> Make alix_present() and alix_present_dmi() return bool;
> 
> Changes v4 per Andrew:
> Remove alix_model as this can be patched downstream where it's needed
>   anyway (ultimately, RFFILL will be supported by a new generic gpio
>   class);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philip A. Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
> Acked-by: Ed Wildgoose <kernel@wildgooses.com>
> Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[...]
>  }
>  
> -static int __init alix_init(void)
> +static int  __init alix_init(void)

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