From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jaya Kumar" Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6.27 1/1] gpiolib: add support for batch set of pins Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 02:05:50 +0800 Message-ID: <45a44e480812311005k709c410ao1116187e9427e452@mail.gmail.com> References: <12276535632759-git-send-email-jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> <200812302355.45193.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <45a44e480812302058k365eddcfxf902095657b78534@mail.gmail.com> <200812311238.13810.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200812311238.13810.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Robin Getz Cc: David Brownell , Eric Miao , Sam Ravnborg , Eric Miao , Haavard Skinnemoen , Philipp Zabel , Russell King , Ben Gardner , Greg KH , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Robin Getz wrote: > On Tue 30 Dec 2008 23:58, Jaya Kumar pondered: >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Robin Getz wrote: >> > Yeah, I hadn't thought about spanning more than one gpio_chip. That's a good >> > point. >> >> The currently posted code already supports spanning more than one gpio_chip. >> > > But doesn't do all the other things that David suggested/requested. > Hi Robin, Yes, you are right. My implementation does not support a driver that needs to set/get more than 32-bits of gpio in a single call. I'm okay with that restriction as I don't see a concrete use case for that. I understand that you're saying that's not satisfactory. I guess we'll have to agree to differ. Thanks, jaya