Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] at91/atmel-mci: inclusion of sd/mmc driver in at91sam9g45 chip and board

[Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>]

Ben Nizette :
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:53 +0200, Andrew Victor wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>>> Then I think it would be best to use GPIO_PIN_NONE. Makes it clear
>>> what is expected and avoids confusion on what should be the proper
>>> value.
>>> I hope I'm not saying non-sense, but even if I am, I guess you can see
>>> that I'm advocating against the magic numbers :)
>> What magic numbers ?
> 
> I think Thiago was referring to the "-1" in the original patch as the
> magic number.
> 
> Leaving the field blank to be initialised to 0 is certainly the
> cleanest, I agree, but it doesn't actually /work/.  On many archs 0 is a
> valid gpio number; the gpio_is_valid check used throughout the kernel
> (including atmel-mci.c) looks like
> 
> static inline int gpio_is_valid(int number)
> {
> 	/* only some non-negative numbers are valid */
> 	return ((unsigned)number) < ARCH_NR_GPIOS;
> }

I understand that the better way to solve this issue is to:
- keep the AT91 way of specifying not connected pins (= 0)
- code the gpio_is_valid() function for at91 that tests this way of
handling not connected gpio

I see that in arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/gpio.h
we include the asm-generic/gpio.h file... must I implement the full set
of gpiolib ?

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre