Re: [PATCH 0/5] ACPI / gpio: Updates to properties

Mika Westerberg
2016-10-19T14:14:59Z

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 05:57:05PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series brings couple of useful GPIO related properties from Device
> Tree to ACPI _DSD device properties:
>
> - Names for GPIO lines
> - GPIO hogging
> - Holes in GPIO property lists
>
> We are using these to get Intel Galileo better supported in the mainline
> kernel (but these may be useful for other boards as well). For example SPI
> chip select on Galileo is connected to a GPIO line so we need to be able to
> describe it in ACPI, and at the same time allow native chip selects.
>
> GPIO hogging can be used to set initial state of certain GPIOs available on
> the headers regardless of the BIOS settings (which may be wrong as it knows
> nothing about which devices have been connected).
>
> Mika Westerberg (5):
> ACPI / documentation: Use recommended name in GPIO property names
> ACPI / gpio: Add support for naming GPIOs
> ACPI / gpio: Add hogging support
> ACPI / property: Allow holes in reference properties
> ACPI / gpio: Allow holes in list of GPIOs for a device

Any comments on the GPIO patches in this series?

At least the last one does not add any new bindings so it should be fine
to apply.