Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip | From | Ben Nizette <> | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:38:24 +1100 |
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On 05/11/2010, at 9:15 AM, Maciej Szmigiero wrote:
> W dniu 04.11.2010 22:16, Ben Nizette pisze: >> >> On 05/11/2010, at 7:01 AM, Maciej Szmigiero wrote: >> >> Well that and standardisation! However it does seem that while conceptually your device should present a gpio interface it's on the fringe >> of what gpiolib was designed to do. I'd understand if you don't feel like making gpiolib better support hotpluggable devices however it >> sounds like it'd be worth doing, not just for 1-W but also, eg, USB GPIO expanders. > > So in your opinion is it worth "bending" the GPIO subsystem to accommodate devices like this one? > This doesn't seem very hard if that parent thing works, just one new function (gpiochip_remove_blocking() or similar). >
s/bending/extending ;-)
I don't reckon it'll be long until someone starts trying to connect up other 1-W/USB/otherwise-hotpluggable expanders through gpiolib and if there are roadblocks they should be addressed.
David has the last word of course but I quite like the idea.
> Anyway, thanks for helping make the code better!
:-)
> >> --Ben. > > Maciej Szmigiero
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