From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpiolib: Introduce chip addition/removal notifier
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:34:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001252234.30169.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100125181100.GA13805@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Monday 25 January 2010, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
> +config GPIOLIB_NOTIFIER
> + bool
> + help
> + This symbol is selected by subsystems that need to handle GPIO
> + chips addition and removal. E.g., this is used for the
> + OpenFirmware bindings.
> +
I'm no huge fan of notifiers, but I suppose they have their place.
However ... I don't see a lot of win to making this optional. Just
inline the little two blocking_notifier_call_chain() calls directly,
making this a *LOT* simpler.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-25 18:09 [PATCH 0/4] OF GPIO integration for I2C/SPI GPIO chips Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] gpiolib: Introduce chip addition/removal notifier Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-26 6:34 ` David Brownell [this message]
2010-01-26 17:28 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-26 21:01 ` David Brownell
2010-01-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-26 6:36 ` David Brownell
2010-01-26 17:43 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-26 21:02 ` David Brownell
2010-01-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] of/gpio: Implement GPIOLIB notifier hooks Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mcu_mpc8349emitx: Remove OF GPIO handling stuff Anton Vorontsov
2010-01-26 6:43 ` David Brownell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-05 20:32 [PATCH v2 0/4] OF GPIO integration for I2C/SPI GPIO chips Anton Vorontsov
2010-02-05 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] gpiolib: Introduce chip addition/removal notifier Anton Vorontsov
2010-02-09 17:16 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-05 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-05 20:30 ` Anton Vorontsov
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