Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2012 10:58:01 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] gpio: add STA2X11 GPIO block |
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:51:11AM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > Me: > >> I'm not completely clear (yet) about how to get the right interrupt > >> number in those other drivers, but I'm willing to remove the constraint > >> as they are cleaned up and submitted.
> Mark Brown: > > Use platform data for both this driver and the other drivers (or device > > tree if you're doing that). This will hard code the magic numbers in > > the board files, not in the driver.
> Yes, but it's not that easy. If the gpio driver gets unpredictable > interrupt numbers associated to the pins, the other drivers must > recover those numbers in some way. That's why I currently started > from 384, like the prevoous gpio driver was doing: the platform data > uses that knowledge in the drivers I'm still using internally (but are > not submittable as-is, so I'm working on them).
If you use platform data why would you get unpredicatable numbers? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |