From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Ungerer Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpio: introduce descriptor-based interface Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:02:06 +1000 Message-ID: <50F7E83E.8000105@uclinux.org> References: <1357629535-26033-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> <201301091046.13020.arnd@arndb.de> <2270940.DTxEYMZtED@percival> <201301101008.45091.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outbound-mail02.westnet.com.au ([203.10.1.243]:40319 "EHLO outbound-mail02.westnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753880Ab3AQMCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:02:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Walleij Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Geert Uytterhoeven , Alex Courbot , Grant Likely , Guenter Roeck , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , Steven King Hi Linus, (My gerg@snapgear.com email no longer gets to me, gerg@uclinux.org is the best direct email for me now). On 01/17/2013 09:15 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> I've tried to find platforms that don't yet use GPIOLIB and fortunately >> there are very few left: >> >> I found two that provide the generic gpio interfaces when gpiolib >> is disabled, but use gpiolib otherwise for the same hardware, >> arch/m68k/include/asm/mcfgpio.h and arch/blackfin/include/asm/gpio.h. >> I would assume that we can simply remove the non-gpiolib shortcut >> here at cost of a small overhead. > > Geert/Greg: interested in looking into this issue? > > The GPIO maintainers want to get rid of non-gpiolib platforms. Steven King did most of the ColdFire GPIO work (CC'ed on this). Steven: are you happy to drop the non-gpiolib support? Regards Greg