Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Remove all the uses of custom gpio.h

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr> wrote:

> Currently CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H is defined for all MIPS
> machines, and each machine type provides its own gpio.h. However
> only a handful really implement the GPIO API, most just forward
> everythings to gpiolib.
>
> The Alchemy machine is notable as it provides a system to allow
> implementing the GPIO API at the board level. But it is not used by
> any board currently supported, so it can also be removed.
>
> For most machine types we can just remove the custom gpio.h, as well
> as the custom wrappers if some exists. Some of the code found in
> the wrappers must be moved to the respective GPIO driver.
>
> A few more fixes are need in some drivers as they rely on linux/gpio.h
> to provides some machine specific definitions, or used asm/gpio.h
> instead of linux/gpio.h for the gpio API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
> ---
>
> This patch is based on my previous serie:
> "MIPS: ath79: Move the GPIO driver to drivers/gpio".
>
> It supercede my previous patch named:
> "MIPS: Remove most of the custom gpio.h"
>
> Compared to the previous patch:
> * Fixed gpio_to_irq on jz4740 and rb532
> * Cleaned up alchemy as well
> * Removed asm/gpio.h
>
> For testing I tried to build all mips defconfig, however my toolchain
> couldn't handle a few configs: ip28 malta_qemu_32r6 maltasmvp_eva
> sead3micro. If somebody can test these that would be more than welcome.
>
> Now a few stats about the state of CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
> after appling this patch. Of the 31 supportd arch, 15 still have
> asm/gpio.h, of these 9 are just a "#warning Include linux/gpio.h
> instead of asm/gpio.h". So we have 6 arch left: arm, avr32, blackfin,
> m68k, sh and unicore32. But only m68k and unicore32 really provides
> custom wrappers, all the others only forward to gpiolib.
>
> On the drivers side we only have 13 occurences of '#include
> <asm/gpio.h>' left, mostly in drivers used on ARM SoC.
>
> So the work left to phase out the legacy GPIO is really not that much
> anymore.

Very good job being done here.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

I guess this better go in through the MIPS tree.
Given all the OpenWRT ports using MIPS this is excellent
progress for a large hobbyist community.

Yours,
Linus Walleij