From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@overkiz.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
Jiri Prchal <jiri.prchal@aksignal.cz>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gpio: add GPIO hogging mechanism
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:37:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvfmynw0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219164109.GB27409@kroah.com>
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Hi Boris,
I'm just returning to this now.
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> I don't understand what makes GPIO's "special" enough to get included in
> the driver core like this, and called for each and every device that is
> added to the system.
>
I'm also a bit confused why GPIOs ended up in the driver core but
perhaps I'm missing something. What was your motivation here?
Cheers,
- Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 14:34 [RFC PATCH] gpio: add GPIO hogging mechanism Boris BREZILLON
[not found] ` <1387463671-1164-1-git-send-email-b.brezillon-ZNYIgs0QAGpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-19 14:34 ` Boris BREZILLON
2013-12-19 16:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-19 16:47 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-12-19 17:18 ` boris brezillon
2013-12-19 18:22 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-12-30 9:48 ` boris brezillon
2014-01-08 9:45 ` Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <20131219164109.GB27409-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-19 17:13 ` boris brezillon
2014-09-20 21:37 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2014-09-20 22:26 ` Ben Gamari
2014-01-08 9:37 ` Linus Walleij
2014-01-08 10:18 ` boris brezillon
2014-01-14 10:27 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-02 15:47 ` Benoit Parrot
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-06 11:58 [GIT PULL] bulk pin control changes for v3.18 Linus Walleij
2014-10-06 15:37 ` [RFC PATCH] gpio: add GPIO hogging mechanism Benoit Parrot
2014-10-21 10:55 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-21 20:09 [RFC Patch] " Benoit Parrot
2014-10-29 7:09 ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-10-29 16:21 ` Benoit Parrot
2014-10-30 0:29 ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-11-14 9:19 ` Linus Walleij
2014-11-14 10:22 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-10-29 8:53 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-10-29 16:34 ` Benoit Parrot
2014-10-29 16:42 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-10-29 19:36 ` Benoit Parrot
2014-10-30 0:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-11-03 9:43 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-29 10:45 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-10-29 16:41 ` Benoit Parrot
2014-10-29 16:47 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-10-29 23:09 ` Benoit Parrot
2014-10-30 17:16 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-11-03 9:59 ` Linus Walleij
2014-11-04 0:38 ` Benoit Parrot
[not found] ` <20141104003827.GA24005-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-14 9:16 ` Linus Walleij
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