Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 May 2011 21:11:56 +0200 | From | Sascha Hauer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/10] mach-u300: rewrite gpio driver, move to drivers/gpio |
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:56:32PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 02:21:27PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com> wrote: > > > > > I start working on moving mxs gpio (arch/arm/mach-mxs/gpio.c) into > > > driver/gpio, and I see the possibility to go a different approach > > > from U300 one posted here. > > > > I've tried to figure out what relation the mail has to the U300 driver > > but cannot find any, more than that it's moving a driver... Please > > start a new mail thread. > > > I will post mxs-gpio driver once I get it done. Then please review > the code and see the difference between mxs-gpio and u300-gpio, > though these hardwares have something in common.
I'm pretty sure they have something in common and even more that *all* gpio drivers have something in common. I wonder if it really makes sense to move the gpio driver to drivers/gpio without creating a common mmio_gpio_chip beforehand. This can't be very hard.
Sascha
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