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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
	anjiandi@codeaurora.org,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:09:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6296a97-d9fc-2135-33a7-3eba436f0433@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171015201811.GA13063@mithrandir>

On 10/15/17 3:18 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> This confuses me. Why would you even want to register pins that don't
> exist? It sounds to me like you're lying to gpiolib and then try to work
> around it trying to access the GPIOs that don't exist but which you told
> it were there.
> 
> Why not just tell gpiolib about only the GPIOs that exist?

Please look at my patches.  That's exactly what they do, but no one else 
likes that approach.

-- 
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Technologies, Inc.  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the
Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

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From: timur@codeaurora.org (Timur Tabi)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:09:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6296a97-d9fc-2135-33a7-3eba436f0433@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171015201811.GA13063@mithrandir>

On 10/15/17 3:18 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> This confuses me. Why would you even want to register pins that don't
> exist? It sounds to me like you're lying to gpiolib and then try to work
> around it trying to access the GPIOs that don't exist but which you told
> it were there.
> 
> Why not just tell gpiolib about only the GPIOs that exist?

Please look at my patches.  That's exactly what they do, but no one else 
likes that approach.

-- 
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc.  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the
Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-15 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-07 15:33 [PATCH 0/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs Timur Tabi
2017-09-07 15:33 ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-07 15:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: disable GPIO groups with no pins Timur Tabi
2017-09-07 15:33   ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-02 17:44   ` Bjorn Andersson
2017-10-02 17:44     ` Bjorn Andersson
2017-10-02 20:47     ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-02 20:47       ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-07 11:07       ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-07 11:07         ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-13 23:35         ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-13 23:35           ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-19 22:44         ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-19 22:44           ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-16  8:01   ` Thierry Reding
2017-10-16  8:01     ` Thierry Reding
2017-10-16 13:52     ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-16 13:52       ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-07 15:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] [v3] pinctrl: qcom: qdf2xxx: add support for new ACPI HID QCOM8002 Timur Tabi
2017-09-07 15:33   ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-08 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs Linus Walleij
2017-09-08 12:50   ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-13 17:09   ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-13 17:09     ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-19  7:04 ` Stephen Boyd
2017-09-19  7:04   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-09-19  8:15   ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-19  8:15     ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-19 12:32     ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-19 12:32       ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-20 11:43       ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-20 11:43         ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-20 13:04         ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-20 13:04           ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-21 12:08           ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-21 12:08             ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-21 12:12             ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-21 12:12               ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-22 13:29               ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-22 13:29                 ` Linus Walleij
2017-09-22 13:37                 ` Timur Tabi
2017-09-22 13:37                   ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-03 22:03                   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-03 22:03                     ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-03 22:12                     ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-03 22:12                       ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-04 21:50                       ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-04 21:50                         ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-04 22:41                         ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-04 22:41                           ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-05 21:30                           ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-05 21:30                             ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-11  7:51                     ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-11  7:51                       ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-12  7:39                       ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-12  7:39                         ` Stephen Boyd
2017-10-14 22:43                         ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-14 22:43                           ` Linus Walleij
2017-10-16 13:42                           ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-16 13:42                             ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-13 23:26                     ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-13 23:26                       ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-15 20:18                       ` Thierry Reding
2017-10-15 20:18                         ` Thierry Reding
2017-10-15 21:09                         ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2017-10-15 21:09                           ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-02 16:02                 ` Timur Tabi
2017-10-02 16:02                   ` Timur Tabi

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