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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org"
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How about a gpio_get(device *, char *) function?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:34:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121129173407.11A543E0A04@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2022442.P80mCjSeu2@percival>

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:38:38 +0900, Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2012 19:14:31 Grant Likely wrote:
> > I don't have any problem with a gpio_get function, but I do agree that
> > making it return an opaque handle is how it should be written with a new
> > set of accessors. The handle should probably be simply the pointer to
> > the &gpio_desc[number] which is a private table in gpiolib.c. The
> > definition of it isn't available outside of gpiolib.c
> 
> That looks like a reasonable approach, but this would make the new API 
> available only to systems that use GPIOlib. Shouldn't we be concerned about 
> making this available to all GPIO implementations? Or is GPIOlib so widely 
> used that we don't care?

I'm tempted to say non-gpiolib is not supported. However, there isn't
anything that would prevent non-gpiolib users from implementing the api
themselves, but they'd need to provide their own handle..

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31  9:04 How about a gpio_get(device *, char *) function? Alex Courbot
2012-10-31 15:25 ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]   ` <509142F5.4010307-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-01  2:48     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-04 18:04 ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-05  7:31   ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-05 12:09     ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-26 11:25       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-05 17:35   ` Stephen Warren
2012-11-06  1:33     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-07 21:24       ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-08  6:14         ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]         ` <CACRpkdYqCQc0Er1JR_eVzZPCycvKjd0Pph8Dcay0FbU3Q64D8A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-08  6:23           ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-13 13:13             ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-07 21:28     ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-26 11:14       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-28  3:38         ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-29 17:34           ` Grant Likely [this message]
2012-12-01 18:41             ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-03 14:15               ` Grant Likely
2012-11-26 11:17 ` Grant Likely

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