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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Cc: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <peter.de-schrijver@nokia.com>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Debobs and ETK padconf implementation
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:04:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809251004.12962.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdwkmmof.fsf@deeprootsystems.com>

On Thursday 25 September 2008, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> 
> >> In that case, what is the proposed method for other kernel code to use
> >> the debobs lines?
> >
> > Hmm, good point :) My idea was to use the gpiolib calls on GPIO12 -
> > GPIO29, but then there is no way for a user to know if the GPIO was
> > assigned to debobs or not... Maybe debobs should register as gpiolib
> > 'chip' and reexport those lines ? Would that make sense ?
> 
> I think debobs should simply 'gpio_export' each pin.  It does not need
> to hold them.

Peter said the right abstraction here was pads (pins/balls?) not
GPIOs, so I'm not sure this is relevant any more, but ...

You can't gpio_export() to userspace, via sysfs, without having
first done a gpio_request().  And then later a gpio_free() will
release that export.  So that won't work.

- Dave


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17 15:02 [PATCH] debobs support for OMAP3430 Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-17 15:02 ` [PATCH] Add definitions for ETK pads and debobs registers Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-17 15:02   ` [PATCH] Debobs and ETK padconf implementation Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-17 15:02     ` [PATCH] Add debobs Kconfig item Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-25  8:58       ` Kevin Hilman
2008-09-25  8:56     ` [PATCH] Debobs and ETK padconf implementation Kevin Hilman
2008-09-25 11:35       ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-25 11:40         ` Kevin Hilman
2008-09-25 11:52           ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-25 12:06             ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-25 12:31             ` Kevin Hilman
2008-09-25 17:04               ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-09-25 20:28                 ` Kevin Hilman
2008-09-25 20:37                   ` David Brownell
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2008-09-16  9:51 [PATCH] debobs support for OMAP3430 Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-16  9:51 ` [PATCH] Add definitions for ETK pads and debobs registers Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2008-09-16  9:51   ` [PATCH] Debobs and ETK padconf implementation Peter 'p2' De Schrijver

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