Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] net: rfkill: gpio: remove gpio conversion support

Alex Courbot
2013-11-25T09:05:45Z

On 11/25/2013 06:02 PM, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:47:38PM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote:
>> On 11/25/2013 05:41 PM, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>>> Adding the lookup table in first patch and then changing the driver in
>>> the second creates a point to the history where this driver stops
>>> working on this platform, which is something I'm not willing to do.
>>
>> Does it? If you just add a lookup table and keep using the
>> integer-based GPIO interface, then your lookup table will not be
>> used by anyone and will basically be a no-op. Then you can switch to
>> the GPIO descriptor interface and take advantage of the lookup
>> table. Unless I missed something there should not be any point that
>> breaks in the git history.
>>
>> (to be clear: the first patch should *only* contain the lookup
>> table, and the second be a merge of the current patches 1 and 3 of
>> this series.)
>
> OK, I agree. If I don't remove the old gpio numbers in in the first
> patch, there is no problem. We can do this with the two patches.

Yep, that's what I meant. :) It would make the series considerably
easier to understand by removing its temporary code.

Thanks,
Alex.