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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio / ACPI: add support for GPIO operation regions
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:48:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130923104809.GC28875@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdb5fqMycTxou50-+oiNOs3vzd+8XfWsPbX8vBJp2Su3aw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:21:37PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c
> (...)
> > +struct acpi_gpio_chip_data {
> > +       /*
> > +        * acpi_install_address_space_handler() wants to put the connection
> > +        * information at the start of the context structure we pass it, in
> > +        * case we are dealing with GPIO operation regions.
> > +        */
> > +       struct acpi_connection_info ci;
> > +       struct gpio_chip *chip;
> > +       struct list_head *evt_pins;
> > +};
> 
> Consider just naming this acpi_gpio_chip, as it is obviously some
> generic container that you will keep adding to.

Sure.

> I'm uncertain how things work, it wouldn't add something to have
> struct gpio_chip be a true member (not a pointer) so you can
> allocate one thing from the drivers, and e.g. use container_of()
> to get from the gpio_chip to the acpi_gpio_chip[_data]?

The drivers are just normal platform drivers (for example gpio-lynxpoint.c)
and they shouldn't care if they got enumerated from ACPI. Allocating
acpi_gpio_chip from a driver would make it depend on ACPI, if I'm
understanding correctly.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 15:14 [PATCH 1/2] gpio / ACPI: register to ACPI events automatically Mika Westerberg
2013-09-13 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] gpio / ACPI: add support for GPIO operation regions Mika Westerberg
2013-09-13 15:55   ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-09-13 17:36     ` Mika Westerberg
2013-09-14  0:10   ` Zheng, Lv
2013-09-15  6:51     ` Mika Westerberg
2013-09-16  0:46       ` Zheng, Lv
2013-09-16  1:21         ` Zheng, Lv
2013-09-16  8:10           ` Mika Westerberg
2013-09-16 23:35             ` Zheng, Lv
2013-09-17  8:37               ` Mika Westerberg
2013-09-24  0:47                 ` Zheng, Lv
2013-09-24  4:59                   ` Mika Westerberg
2013-09-20 19:21   ` Linus Walleij
2013-09-23 10:48     ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2013-09-20 19:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] gpio / ACPI: register to ACPI events automatically Linus Walleij
2013-09-23 10:52   ` Mika Westerberg

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