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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: add gpio_add_lookup_tables() to add several
 tables at once
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:06:10 +0300
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On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 12:24 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 01:21:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 13:58 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > When converting legacy board to use gpiod API() there migt be
> > > several
> > > lookup tables in board file, let's provide a way to register them
> > > all
> > > at
> > > once.
> > 
> > Looking into the code which is using several GPIO look up tables I
> > noticed that the pattern often something like
> > 
> > 
> > gpiod_add_lookup_table(x_tbl);
> > platform_device_register(x_dev);
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > gpiod_add_lookup_table(y_tbl);
> > platform_device_register(y_dev);
> > 
> > which looks also logical.
> > 
> > So, I have no strong opinion here, though it would be nice to have
> > an
> > example where it makes sense.
> 
> Here is an example. It actually does not have multiple GPIO tables,
> but
> it allows to keep the structure of init sequence for the board, which
> relies on having series of arrays conditionally populated with devices
> and other data that need to be registered.

I see your point. Okay, no objections from me.

Please, add a stub for !GPIOLIB case.

After addressing it, 

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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