From: jic23@kernel.org (Jonathan Cameron)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/12] staging/iio/lis3l02dq: fix building without irq_to_gpio
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:54:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50793A47.7060705@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209291503.40519.arnd@arndb.de>
On 09/29/2012 04:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2012, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 09/28/2012 10:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The driver has not been building for some time after the
>>> irq_to_gpio function has been removed from the kernel.
>>>
>>> The only board in the upstream kernel that provides
>>> this device is the "Stargate 2", which is also maintained
>>> by Jonathan Cameron. Rather than working around the problem
>>> by adding new platform data for this driver, this patch
>>> uses the of_gpio framework to get to the gpio number.
>>>
>>> However, the stargate2 code does not (yet) use DT based
>>> probing, so it is still broken, but at least building
>>> allyesconfig works again.
>> Will be optimistic to think anyone will convert a platform
>> that no one still makes (stargate 2 was pretty much intel
>> research only + some they gave to accademics - imote2 has
>> been dropped by memsic for a while now.) If nothing else
>> there is little chance anyone will bother porting a remotely
>> up to date bootloader to these boards given how few people
>> are still using them for anything.
>
> The way are converting most ARM platforms to DT, we should be
> able to replace the board files with .dts files once all
> device drivers have been converted over. This is taking a
> bit longer for mmp/pxa than for some of the other platforms,
> Updating the boot loader makes it easier to deploy a DT
> version, but you can also append a DT blob to the kernel
> if that's not possible, and we will in the future allow
> appending multiple DT blobs and let the early boot stages
> pick the right one based on the board ID.
Sounds good.
>
>> I'm happy enough with this patch. Would prefer to
>> take it post merge window as a fix than now given timing.
>
> Ok, fair enough. It has been broken for a while, so there
> is no hurry now. I just stumbled over it when doing an
> "allyesconfig" build.
Added to togreg branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
>
>> Long run this driver will hopefully get replaced by the
>> unified driver for all the st accelerometers (assuming that
>> ever gets back to this long obsolete part).
>
> Ok.
>
> Arnd
>
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 21:36 [PATCH 00/12] New warnings and build errors in linux-next Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 01/12] mtd: atmel nand: build regression Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-29 19:53 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 02/12] ata: mark probe function as __devinit rather than __init Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:38 ` Mark Langsdorf
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 03/12] mmc: dw_mmc: fix building exynos driver as a module Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-01 11:05 ` Will Newton
2012-10-04 12:40 ` Seungwon Jeon
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 04/12] video: exynos: warnings in exynos_dp_core.c Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-05 8:01 ` Jingoo Han
2012-10-05 8:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 05/12] ARM: ixp4xx: use __iomem for MMIO Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-29 10:35 ` ARM SoC tree, Was: " Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-29 14:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-29 17:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-29 17:31 ` Olof Johansson
2012-09-29 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-29 21:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-29 21:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-30 17:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 06/12] sched: warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 07/12] staging/iio/lis3l02dq: fix building without irq_to_gpio Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-29 10:02 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-29 15:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-13 9:54 ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 08/12] dtc: be more quiet with "make -s" Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:55 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-29 7:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 09/12] tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:45 ` Jason Wessel
2012-10-22 23:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 10/12] gpio: pcf857x: select IRQ_DOMAIN Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-30 21:39 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 11/12] pinctrl: samsung: use __devinit section for init code Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-01 6:15 ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-02 11:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-02 12:57 ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-02 20:28 ` Thierry Reding
2012-09-28 21:36 ` [PATCH 12/12] time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-28 21:55 ` John Stultz
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