Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:07:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: add hogs support for machine code |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> Board files constitute a significant part of the users of the legacy > GPIO framework. In many cases they only export a line and set its > desired value. We could use GPIO hogs for that like we do for DT and > ACPI but there's no support for that in machine code. > > This patch proposes to extend the machine.h API with support for > registering hog tables in board files. > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> > --- > v1 -> v2: > - kbuild bot complains about enum gpiod_flags having incomplete type > although it builds fine for me locally: change the type of dflags > to int
I like the idea and thinking behind this patch, so patch applied.
It's a bit of code to carry, so if it doesn't see any use, I will simply revert it :)
But I bet you intend to follow up with some machine patches and then it is immediately worth it.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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