From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
"Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov" <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:36:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001252236.16141.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100125181103.GB13805@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Monday 25 January 2010, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> With this patch there are two ways to register OF GPIO controllers:
>
> 1. Allocating the of_gpio_chip structure and passing the
> &of_gc->gc pointer to the gpiochip_add. (Can use container_of
> to convert the gpio_chip to the of_gpio_chip.)
>
> 2. Allocating and registering the gpio_chip structure separately
> from the of_gpio_chip. (Since two allocations are separate,
> container_of won't work.)
>
> As time goes by we'll kill the first option.
Why have two options, instead of just the first/simpler one??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ 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
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 [this message]
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
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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 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips Anton Vorontsov
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