[PATCH 1/3] gpio: Add simple poweroff-gpio driver

[grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely)]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:21:20 +0000, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Grant Likely wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:21:29 +0100, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From: Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk>
> >>>
> >>> Given appropriate devicetree bindings, this driver registers a
> >>> pm_power_off function to set a GPIO line high/low to power down
> >>> your board.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> >>> ---
> >>>  .../devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-poweroff.txt     |   22 ++++
> >>>  drivers/gpio/Kconfig                               |   10 ++
> >>>  drivers/gpio/Makefile                              |    2 +
> >>>  drivers/gpio/gpio-poweroff.c                       |  129
> >>> ++++++++++++++++++++
> >>
> >>
> >> This isn't a gpio controller driver. Don't put it into drivers/gpio
> >
> >
> > There's a v2 which puts it in drivers/power/reset/gpio-poweroff.c
> 
> Okay, thanks.
> 
> g.

So... I just read the power sequence proposal patch series which is
remarkably like a superset of what is needed here. Does it make sense to
use a power sequence for doing generic power off instead of this
interface?

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc, P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies, Ltd.