From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: add export with name from dts
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:36:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n7i4a7x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAVeFuJCamVumTphu-Wv2DSgepwoPgYXnCGdK=L8oem-3-K+gA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> But maybe I'm missing your point - could you describe a concrete
> use-case for this feature that can *not* be achieved using
> gpio_export_with_link()?
For what it's worth, it seems that the gpio-of-helper[1] driver found in
BeagleBoard kernels targets a use-case similar to that intended by this
patch.
Cheers,
- Ben
[1] https://github.com/beagleboard/meta-beagleboard/blob/master/common-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline-3.8/not-capebus/0182-gpio-Introduce-GPIO-OF-helper.patch
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-12 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-17 12:08 [PATCH v3] gpio: add export with name from dts Jiri Prchal
2013-10-17 15:04 ` Mark Rutland
2013-10-17 18:03 ` Alexandre Courbot
2013-10-18 7:04 ` Jiří Prchal
2013-10-18 10:36 ` Mark Rutland
2013-10-18 12:49 ` Jiří Prchal
2013-10-18 19:52 ` Linus Walleij
2013-11-13 15:20 ` Ben Gamari
2013-11-18 10:12 ` Linus Walleij
2013-11-12 2:36 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2013-11-13 9:15 ` Jiří Prchal
2013-11-13 14:56 ` Ben Gamari
2013-11-18 10:05 ` Linus Walleij
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