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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36:15PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > With this patch there are two ways to register OF GPIO controllers:
> >
> > 1. Allocating the of_gpio_chip structure and passing the
> >    &of_gc->gc pointer to the gpiochip_add. (Can use container_of
> >    to convert the gpio_chip to the of_gpio_chip.)
> >
> > 2. Allocating and registering the gpio_chip structure separately
> >    from the of_gpio_chip. (Since two allocations are separate,
> >    container_of won't work.)
> >
> > As time goes by we'll kill the first option.
>
> Why have two options, instead of just the first/simpler one??

Because I2C/SPI drivers allocate (and register) gpio_chip structures
by themselves, so the first option is a no-go.

You can see the first option in use in
arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/gpio.c:

struct qe_gpio_chip {
struct of_mm_gpio_chip mm_gc;
....
};

Now include/linux/of_gpio.h:

struct of_mm_gpio_chip {
struct of_gpio_chip of_gc;
...
};

struct of_gpio_chip {
struct gpio_chip gc; <- here, I'm going to get rid of it
...
};

I2C/SPI drivers allocate gpio_chip structure already, so we don't
need to store 'struct gpio_chip gc', instead we need to store just
a pointer, and then attach the already allocated gpio_chip to the
of_gpio_chip stuff.

Having two ways to store gpio_chip isn't good, that's why
I stated that the first option will have to go, i.e. I'm going to
convert arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/gpio.c and few other of_mm
gpio chips to the new registration scheme soon.

Thanks,

--
Anton Vorontsov
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