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

Mika Westerberg
2013-11-21T10:33:54Z

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:31:35PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/sfi.h b/include/linux/gpio/sfi.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3e111ad
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/gpio/sfi.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_SFI_GPIO_H_
> +#define _LINUX_SFI_GPIO_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/err.h>
> +#include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
> +#include <linux/sfi.h>
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_GPIO_SFI
> +
> +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.

Yeah, we have the same in ACPI version but I'm planning to get rid of it
completely.