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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
	Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:27:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811291927.25364.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45a44e480811291504l30ed8101h9ab9b5333fb33f76@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 29 November 2008, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> 	 Given that _bus() isn't appropriate anymore, how does
> "gpio_set_values" and .sets sound and correspondingly gpio_get_values
> and .gets?

Confusingly similar to the single value version:  a single letter.
Far better to use "bitmask" or something similar ...

... also, better to split out discussions of gpio_chip methods
(NOT used by all implementors of the GPIO interfaces) from the
discussion of those interfaces (implemented uniformly on all
platforms that support any of the calls).

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-30  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 22:52 [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins Jaya Kumar
2008-11-26  1:20 ` Eric Miao
2008-11-26  3:27   ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-26  4:15   ` David Brownell
2008-11-26  5:51     ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-27 20:01       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-11-27 23:43         ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-28  5:47           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-11-29 22:48         ` David Brownell
2008-11-29 23:33           ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-29 22:54       ` David Brownell
2008-11-29 23:52         ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-30 17:55           ` David Brownell
2008-12-01  1:10             ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-27 14:55               ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-28 18:46                 ` Robin Getz
2008-12-28 22:00                   ` Ben Nizette
2008-12-29  0:28                     ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-29 20:32                       ` David Brownell
2008-12-29 19:59                     ` David Brownell
2009-01-06 23:02                     ` Robin Getz
2009-01-07  1:52                       ` Ben Nizette
2008-12-29 19:56                   ` David Brownell
2008-12-30  0:20                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-12-30  0:43                       ` David Brownell
2008-12-31  4:55                     ` Robin Getz
2008-12-31  4:58                       ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-31  5:02                         ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-31 17:38                         ` Robin Getz
2008-12-31 18:05                           ` Jaya Kumar
2009-01-06 22:41                             ` Robin Getz
2009-01-10  7:37                               ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-29 19:32                 ` David Brownell
2008-12-30 15:45                   ` Jaya Kumar
2008-12-29 19:06               ` David Brownell
2008-11-26  9:09 ` Paulius Zaleckas
2008-11-26  9:18   ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-26 10:08     ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-26 10:25       ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-26 12:08         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-29 22:47     ` David Brownell
2008-11-29 23:04       ` Jaya Kumar
2008-11-30  3:27         ` David Brownell [this message]

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