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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	Wolfgang Ocker <weo@reccoware.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Specify GPIO number base for controller in DT
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:12:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40810241012o57e85215i9778efc342250137@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081024165428.GC14350@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Anton Vorontsov
<avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:13:00PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> On Thursday 23 October 2008, Wolfgang Ocker wrote:
>> > The GPIOLIB allows the specification of a base gpio number for a
>> > controller. That is not possible using OF. Instead, free gpio numbers
>> > are assigned.
>> >
>> > In order to allow static, predefined gpio numbers, a base property in
>> > the gpio controller node specifies the first gpio number.
>> >
>> > v2, v3: added/improved description of base property in doc
>>
>> These version descriptions are better placed below the "---" line. And you
>> should remove the "Re: " from the subject line. Other than this:
>>
>> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
>
> Please-defer-this-patch-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
>
> Wolfgang, Stefan, see this comment:
>
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-October/064505.html
>
> ..just tell me what are you trying to solve.

Yeah, I don't like this patch either.  GPIO numbering is a Linux
internal detail and has no bearing on the hardware description.  If
you need to know what a particular gpio number is then it should be
resolved by finding the device tree node; not by trying to fix a GPIO
controller to a particular number.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 12:27 [PATCH] powerpc: Specify GPIO number base for controller in DT Wolfgang Ocker
2008-10-23 14:18 ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-23 14:30   ` [PATCH v2] " Wolfgang Ocker
2008-10-23 14:40     ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-23 14:49       ` [PATCH v3] " Wolfgang Ocker
2008-10-23 18:13         ` Stefan Roese
2008-10-24 16:54           ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-10-24 17:12             ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-10-24 18:00               ` Wolfgang Ocker
2008-10-23 21:35   ` [PATCH] " Matt Sealey
2008-10-24 16:10     ` Wolfgang Ocker
2008-10-24 16:45 ` Anton Vorontsov

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