From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Gamari Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: add export with name from dts Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:36:50 -0500 Message-ID: <874n7i4a7x.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com ([209.85.216.171]:60424 "EHLO mail-qc0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385Ab3KLCg4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:36:56 -0500 Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id s13so1092163qcv.30 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:36:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > But maybe I'm missing your point - could you describe a concrete > use-case for this feature that can *not* be achieved using > gpio_export_with_link()? For what it's worth, it seems that the gpio-of-helper[1] driver found in BeagleBoard kernels targets a use-case similar to that intended by this patch. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/beagleboard/meta-beagleboard/blob/master/common-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.8/not-capebus/0182-gpio-Introduce-GPIO-OF-helper.patch --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSgZRCAAoJEErkyLZmeNiDPIAIALWDNEXfWJv+TCGIy0mZDEi+ /Nd4WtkwnwFI44GMhS2//9ROrsBG1u4mmra2m2cbvVdvtrewl3Ow/ZV/IQ7imv35 2fFU/Fa2+CvBKqDzi12i7b02O+KZtnEQFOEv/6Tw0tRDIuXeUy9POgljcLPgYSyR JUpe2FU9oyRzWzsZeGhtt+I6h9ROXfTsz/S4cLXJFlw56N6RBDkOJLwjj7Umn3Pl DlX7kbM7ZgDlSg1LyDV0caznlge97gBzqRyOoPlabbkSUTjW6DxPvOo/DQRYQd7t Fg/j0VBa9bMypkotzWU31rMbwM6vhvc22s3nIwgRi3yvBsfT2sTog6MgD5jogA4= =7a4f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--