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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add btgpio driver
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:04:15AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:06:38AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > > This adds the btgpio driver.
> > > > The purpose of the btgpio driver is to export all of the 24 GPIO pins
> > > > available on Brooktree 8xx chips to the kernel GPIO infrastructure.
> > > >
> > > > This makes it possible to use a physically modified BT8xx card as
> > > > cheap digital GPIO card.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> > >
> > > How one is supposed to test this driver? I am unable to switch on
> > > the GIPO lib support in my config. I tried also allyesconfig but no
> > > trace of gpio lib stuff.
> >
> > Really, GPIO menu is no present anywhere. While searching for GPIO
> > finds stuff, I am unable to locate and select it. I am using 2.6.26-rc8.
>
> For what $ARCH? GPIO menu says this:
>
> config HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> bool
> help
> Platforms select gpiolib if they use this infrastructure
> for all their GPIOs, usually starting with ones integrated
> into SOC processors.
>
> and then the arch-es that select HAVE_GPIO_LIB are these:
>
> ./arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/Kconfig:50: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/mips/Kconfig:803: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/avr32/Kconfig:90: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/avr32/Kconfig.orig:85: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:257: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:396: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:426: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig:466: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
> ./arch/arm/Kconfig.orig:401: select HAVE_GPIO_LIB
>
> so are you using one of those arches?

ah.. this explains, i am using x86_64. my Kconfig-foo is still too young.

thanks,
Domenico

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