Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.19-rc5] arch-neutral GPIO calls

David Brownell
2006-11-13T20:53:08Z

On Monday 13 November 2006 12:26 pm, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> >Nah; look at arch/arm/plat-omap/gpio.c and ignore the mess, but observe
> >that what you see there is essentially a bunch of "gpio controller"
> >classes using the ugly "switch(type)" dispatch scheme instead of the
> >prettier "type->op()" dispatch scheme. All that stuff needs to be
> >cleaner, but for now it'd suffice to add a new FPGA typecode.
>
> Agreed. But if we add to the machine descriptor, then not only do you
> not need to touch arch-omap/gpio.c, but you can take that switch
> statement out, too. Just one less chunk of code to tweak when a new
> platform is supported.

Do non-ARM platforms have board/machine descriptors on Linux, though?
I thought most didn't ...

One could come up with an implementation that uses GPIO numbers
as indices into a descriptor array, and using board-specific
initialization of that array ... just like with IRQs and irq_chip.

That could lead to heavier weight implementations than I'd prefer
to see (since GPIOs are a very light weight notion!), but it'd
certainly provide a more reusable way to add GPIO controllers.

All behind the API I proposed, note -- no changes needed.

- Dave