Re: [PATCH 6/6] wifi: cw1200: Convert to GPIO descriptors

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> writes:

> The CW1200 uses two GPIOs to control the powerup and reset
> pins, get these from GPIO descriptors instead of being passed
> as platform data from boardfiles.
>
> The RESET line will need to be marked as active low as we will
> let gpiolib handle the polarity inversion.
>
> The SDIO case is a bit special since the "card" need to be
> powered up before it gets detected on the SDIO bus and
> properly probed. Fix this by using board-specific GPIOs
> assigned to device "NULL".
>
> There are currently no in-tree users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

[...]

> +/* Like the rest of the driver, this only supports one device per system */
> +static struct gpio_desc *cw1200_reset;
> +static struct gpio_desc *cw1200_powerup;

Side comment about cw1200 driver: it's pretty bad that the driver
supports only one device per system. As I haven't seen any real activity
for this driver a long time I thinking of just removing it in the near
future.

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