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From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, w.sang@pengutronix.de,
	jbe@pengutronix.de, highguy@gmail.com,
	broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/6 v3] gpio: Add sysfs support to block GPIO API
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:15:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507C52D1.4050104@antcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121015180702.GA12801@game.jcrosoft.org>

On 10/15/2012 08:07 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 21:11 Fri 12 Oct     , Roland Stigge wrote:
>> This patch adds sysfs support to the block GPIO API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
>>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio |    6 
>>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c               |  226 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  include/asm-generic/gpio.h           |   11 +
>>  include/linux/gpio.h                 |   13 ++
>>  4 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> I really don't like this sysfs we need to add a specific device with ioctl

The good thing about the current style is that you have a single value
for the whole block in a single file just as for single GPIOs. You can
consider it as a generalized GPIO.

And I like it. :-)

Thanks for considering,

Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-12 19:11 [PATCH RFC 0/6 v3] gpio: Add block GPIO Roland Stigge
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6 v3] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib Roland Stigge
2012-10-15  5:20   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-10-15 17:20     ` Roland Stigge
2012-10-15 22:05       ` Ryan Mallon
2012-10-15 22:55         ` Roland Stigge
2012-10-15 19:56   ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6 v3] gpio: Add sysfs support to block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2012-10-15  5:35   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-10-15 18:01     ` Roland Stigge
2012-10-15 18:07   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-10-15 18:15     ` Roland Stigge [this message]
2012-10-15 18:19     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-15 20:30       ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-15 21:38         ` Roland Stigge
2012-10-16  8:43         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-10-18  4:38         ` Daniel Glöckner
2012-10-19 10:29           ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6 v3] gpio: Add device tree " Roland Stigge
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6 v3] gpio-max730x: Add " Roland Stigge
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6 v3] gpio-lpc32xx: " Roland Stigge
2012-10-12 19:11 ` [PATCH RFC 6/6 v3] gpio-generic: " Roland Stigge

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