From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Courbot Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: discourage passing base to gpio_chip Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:41:31 +0900 Message-ID: <55540B5B.8000303@nvidia.com> References: <1431515095-29107-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hqemgate16.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.65]:7437 "EHLO hqemgate16.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933139AbbENClh (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2015 22:41:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1431515095-29107-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Walleij , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org On 05/13/2015 08:04 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: > Passing a fixed base in struct gpio_chip is done for legacy > systems that cannot handle dynamic allocation. Discourage this > behaviour in the kerneldoc. Good idea, we are still seeing too much of these. Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot