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

Heikki Krogerus
2013-11-25T09:03:59Z

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.

Thanks,

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heikki