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From: stigge@antcom.de (Roland Stigge)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/2] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:25:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506DF0CC.9000202@antcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdYGePft_XvhhoNyRfBm484FD46WGagivQzjh5-OE3VJUA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 04/10/12 01:07, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> What do others think? JC? Linus? I'm considering this (unsigned int
>> data) a valid option.
> 
> I think we mostly use an unsigned long for such stuff as IRQ flags
> and ioctl() parameters in the kernel.
> 
> In this case it has the upside that it will be 32bit on 32bit systems
> and 64bit on 64bit systems if I'm not mistaken.

Fine. Will try to prepare a patch tomorrow, including fallback to single
GPIO handling (if the driver doesn't implement block operations) and
omitting the sysfs interface in the first patch.

Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27 21:22 [PATCH RFC 1/2] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib Roland Stigge
2012-09-27 21:22 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] gpio-max730x: Add block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2012-09-28  2:47 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28  7:14   ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-28  7:51     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28  8:51       ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-28  9:08         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28  9:23           ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-28 10:28           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28 11:32             ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-28 16:01               ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28 18:32                 ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-29 19:57                   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-30 10:34                     ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-30 15:11                       ` Stijn Devriendt
2012-09-28  9:14 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-28  9:52   ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-28 11:34     ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-28 12:35       ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-30  9:35 ` Stijn Devriendt
2012-09-30 10:50   ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-30 14:52     ` Stijn Devriendt
2012-09-30 15:09       ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-30 15:19         ` Stijn Devriendt
2012-09-30 15:46           ` Roland Stigge
2012-10-03 23:11             ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-03 23:07     ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-04 20:25       ` Roland Stigge [this message]
2012-10-03 19:08 ` Mark Brown

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