Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] gpiolib: append SFI helpers for GPIO API

Linus Walleij
2013-11-26T09:37:20Z

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 12:40 +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:31:35PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

>> > +struct gpio_desc *sfi_get_gpiod_by_name(const char *name);
>>
>> I'm wondering should this function be exported at all? What the drivers
>> should be using is gpiod_get_xxx() APIs and not DT/ACPI/SFI specific
>> interfaces.
>
> I won't mix this with generic stuff since we have really few users of
> SFI and there should be no new users at all.
>
>> Yeah, we have the same in ACPI version but I'm planning to get rid of it
>> completely.
>
> I'm okay to move to this direction, if Linus and others are okay with
> it.

Go for it. Mika is right that we need to get rid of any custom calls
and this is the way ACPI is moving too...

Yours,
Linus Walleij