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From: Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>
To: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Cc: rpurdie@rpsys.net, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] leds: Convert S3C24XX LED driver to gpiolib API
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:18:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF20224.4020203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK5ve-JRmb93+KVFVfeDbP7i_7n3dN22WcsyLurgAbvkU5e=mA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 07/02/2012 05:35 AM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki
> <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The s3c2410_gpio* calls are obsolete and have been scheduled for
>> removal since several kernel releases. Remove them and use common
>> gpiolib API instead.
>> This patch also adds gpio_request/gpio_free call for API corectness.
>>
>> It is a prerequisite for removal of the S3C24XX SoC specific
>> arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/gpio-fns.h header.
>>
>> Tested on Micro2440-SDK.
>>
> 
> Overall, these 2 patches are good. I'm just curious why not we just
> use generic led-gpio driver to replace this one.

Thank you for the suggestion, I wasn't really aware of generic leds-gpio
driver... This could be nice optimization. However my intention was
to just clean up the GPIO bits, with minimal changes to other subsystems.
I could check and see how it could be done perhaps as a next step ? There
is a few (old) boards that use this driver and converting them would 
delay the GPIO patches even further...

Also generic led-gpio has some limitations, e.g. I couldn't see it supports
tri-stating a GPIO when a LED is off. Probably this feature could be added. 

--
Regards,
Sylwester

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-30 12:30 [PATCH 1/2] leds: Convert S3C24XX LED driver to devm_kzalloc() Sylwester Nawrocki
2012-06-30 12:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] leds: Convert S3C24XX LED driver to gpiolib API Sylwester Nawrocki
2012-07-02  3:35   ` Bryan Wu
2012-07-02 20:18     ` Sylwester Nawrocki [this message]
2012-07-03  2:30       ` Bryan Wu
2012-07-03 21:10         ` Sylwester Nawrocki

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