Messages in this thread | | | From | Sergio Paracuellos <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:02:01 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] gpiolib: convert 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to support multiple gpiochip per device |
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:04 AM Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are some unfortunate cases where the DT representation > of the device and the Linux internal representation differs. > Such drivers for devices are forced to implement a custom function > to avoid the core code 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to be executed > since in any other case every gpiochip inside will got repeated > names through its internal gpiochip banks. To avoid this antipattern > this changes are introduced trying to adapt core 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' > to get a correct behaviour for every single situation. > > This series introduces a new 'offset' field in the gpiochip structure > that can be used for those unfortunate drivers that must define multiple > gpiochips per device. > > Drivers affected by this situation are also updated. These are > 'gpio-mt7621' and 'gpio-brcmstb'. > > Motivation for this series available at [0]. > > Thanks in advance for your feedback. > > Best regards, > Sergio Paracuellos > > [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/26/198 > > Sergio Paracuellos (3): > gpiolib: convert 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to support multiple > gpiochip baks per device > gpio: mt7621: support gpio-line-names property > gpio: brcmstb: remove custom 'brcmstb_gpio_set_names' > > drivers/gpio/gpio-brcmstb.c | 45 +------------------------------------ > drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c | 1 + > drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- > include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 4 ++++ > 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
Hi!
Linus, Bartosz, any comments on this series?
Best regards, Sergio Paracuellos > > -- > 2.25.1 >
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