From: "Varadarajan, Charulatha" <charu@ti.com> To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, tony@atomide.com, paul@pwsan.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup GPIO driver Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:33:51 +0530 [thread overview] Message-ID: <BANLkTikUyA-TrFTqKEuxJ2rEcCK5H7w_Uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <87oc3xvrt6.fsf@ti.com> Kevin, Thanks for your comments. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:04, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> wrote: > Hi Charu, > > Charulatha V <charu@ti.com> writes: > >> Modifies the OMAP GPIO driver to avoid usage of cpu_is* checks >> for different OMAP architectures. This is done by moving some >> architecture specific code to mach-omap* and call them from >> plat-omap* using function pointers. Also remove the register offset >> macros from OMAP GPIO driver and handle the same in mach-omap*. > > Thanks for working on this cleanup, this driver really needs a cleanup. > > You've hit on all the main areas for cleanup, but unfortunately, it's > not really going in the direction I was hoping. Rather than moving code > into the SoC specific parts, I was hoping to generalize the driver such > that SoC-specific code would just pass in register offsets/options into > the common driver. Your current approach isn't really reducing code, > it's just moving it around. > > I had started on a similar cleanup as well, and will post that series > shortly to demonstrate the direction I think the cleanups should be > going. I've tackled most of the same functions/areas that you have > (except the IRQ triggering stuff), but have a rather different approach. > I'll get to the IRQ triggering stuff next (after going on vacation for a > week), but feel free to build on top of my series if you like. Sure. I will wait for your series. -V Charulatha > > The direction I'd like to go is towards having a generalized driver that > can not only work across all OMAP SoCs, but also hopefully towards > something that can be shared with other SoCs as well. Of course, the > first step is cleaning up the OMAP driver, but the next step will be > looking for other areas of consolidation. Towards that end, I'm also > working towards converting the GPIO IRQs in this driver to use the new > generic IRQ chip infrastructure posted by Thomas Gleixner. In my > series, you'll see that I started that for the MPUIO IRQs, but the GPIO > IRQs will come next. > > Kevin > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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From: charu@ti.com (Varadarajan, Charulatha) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup GPIO driver Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:33:51 +0530 [thread overview] Message-ID: <BANLkTikUyA-TrFTqKEuxJ2rEcCK5H7w_Uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <87oc3xvrt6.fsf@ti.com> Kevin, Thanks for your comments. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:04, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> wrote: > Hi Charu, > > Charulatha V <charu@ti.com> writes: > >> Modifies the OMAP GPIO driver to avoid usage of cpu_is* checks >> for different OMAP architectures. This is done by moving some >> architecture specific code to mach-omap* and call them from >> plat-omap* using function pointers. Also remove the register offset >> macros from OMAP GPIO driver and handle the same in mach-omap*. > > Thanks for working on this cleanup, this driver really needs a cleanup. > > You've hit on all the main areas for cleanup, but unfortunately, it's > not really going in the direction I was hoping. ?Rather than moving code > into the SoC specific parts, I was hoping to generalize the driver such > that SoC-specific code would just pass in register offsets/options into > the common driver. ?Your current approach isn't really reducing code, > it's just moving it around. > > I had started on a similar cleanup as well, and will post that series > shortly to demonstrate the direction I think the cleanups should be > going. ?I've tackled most of the same functions/areas that you have > (except the IRQ triggering stuff), but have a rather different approach. > I'll get to the IRQ triggering stuff next (after going on vacation for a > week), but feel free to build on top of my series if you like. Sure. I will wait for your series. -V Charulatha > > The direction I'd like to go is towards having a generalized driver that > can not only work across all OMAP SoCs, but also hopefully towards > something that can be shared with other SoCs as well. ?Of course, the > first step is cleaning up the OMAP driver, but the next step will be > looking for other areas of consolidation. ?Towards that end, I'm also > working towards converting the GPIO IRQs in this driver to use the new > generic IRQ chip infrastructure posted by Thomas Gleixner. ?In my > series, you'll see that I started that for the MPUIO IRQs, but the GPIO > IRQs will come next. > > Kevin >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 14:04 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-04-22 11:08 [RFC PATCH 00/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup GPIO driver Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 01/18] OMAP1: GPIO: Fix mpuio_init() call Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 02/18] OMAP: GPIO: remove get_gpio_bank() Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 03/18] OMAP: GPIO: Move gpio_get_index() to mach-omap Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 14:59 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 14:59 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 04/18] OMAP: GPIO: Move gpio_valid() to SoC specific files Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 15:15 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 15:15 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 05/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup datain,dataout,set dir funcs Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 15:22 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 05/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup datain, dataout, set " Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 06/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup set trigger func Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 07/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup set/get IRQ, clr irqstatus funcs Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 08/18] OMAP: GPIO: req/free: Remove reg offset macros usage Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 09/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup gpio_irq_handler Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 10/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup set wakeup/suspend/resume funcs Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 11/18] OMAP: GPIO: Remove dependency on gpio_bank_count Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 16:04 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 16:04 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 12/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup set_debounce, idle/resume_after_idle Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 13/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup save/restore context Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 14/18] OMAP: GPIO: Remove CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP16XX/OMAP2+ defines Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 15/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup gpio_show_rev Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 16/18] OMAP: GPIO: move omap_gpio_mod_init to mach-omap Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 17/18] OMAP: GPIO: use dev_err* instead of printk Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` [RFC PATCH 18/18] OMAP: GPIO: Remove usage of bank method Charulatha V 2011-04-22 11:08 ` Charulatha V 2011-04-22 14:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/18] OMAP: GPIO: cleanup GPIO driver Sascha Hauer 2011-04-22 14:02 ` Sascha Hauer 2011-04-22 22:34 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-22 22:34 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-04-25 14:03 ` Varadarajan, Charulatha [this message] 2011-04-25 14:03 ` Varadarajan, Charulatha
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