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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] GPIO changes for v3.6
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:35:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731133527.GH4468@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731144724.5ef139fa@notabene.brown>

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:47:24PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:

> ... though it occurs to me that it is possible that the GPIO number might not
> be allocated until something else has been probed, so a -ve gpio number could
> mean "there is no such gpio" or it could mean "gpio has not been allocated
> yet".  I wonder if that should be allowed and where it should be handled.

If there's logic to do things like that I'd 

> I'd really like to see gpios be requested by name ... anyone know if there
> are any plans along that line?

I've not noticed anyone doing much substantial work on GPIO recently.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 22:48 [GIT PULL] GPIO changes for v3.6 Linus Walleij
2012-07-26 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-27 22:37   ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-28 15:34     ` Shawn Guo
2012-07-30  6:57 ` NeilBrown
2012-07-30 13:36   ` Mark Brown
2012-07-31  4:47     ` NeilBrown
2012-07-31 13:35       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-08-04 22:03   ` Linus Walleij

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