[PATCH 11/13] ARM: gpio: consolidate trivial gpiolib implementations

[balbi@ti.com (Felipe Balbi)]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:07:18PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:15:31PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:08:01AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h
> > > index 166a7a3..15e8970 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/gpio.h
> > > @@ -4,4 +4,14 @@
> > >  /* not all ARM platforms necessarily support this API ... */
> > >  #include <mach/gpio.h>
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef __ARM_GPIOLIB_TRIVIAL
> > > +/* Note: this may rely upon the value of ARCH_NR_GPIOS set in mach/gpio.h */
> > > +#include <asm-generic/gpio.h>
> > > +
> > > +/* The trivial gpiolib dispatchers */
> > > +#define gpio_get_value  __gpio_get_value
> > > +#define gpio_set_value  __gpio_set_value
> > > +#define gpio_cansleep   __gpio_cansleep
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > could that be a selectable symbol ? Something like:
> > 
> > CONFIG_HAS_ARM_TRIVIAL_GPIO
> > 
> > then on Kconfig you just:
> > 
> > select HAS_ARM_TIVIAL_GPIO or something ?
> 
> That makes things more complicated, because that involves digging through
> a lot of platform code in a couple of places to work out exactly when we
> need this - and it crosses the boundary to arch/sh too.
> 
> So I'd prefer to keep this simple.
> 
> The long-term goal is to remove that symbol entirely, but in order to do
> that we need to kill of the "optimized" on-board SoC stuff in those (few)
> gpio.h which don't have the symbol selected.  This is rather necessary to
> progress towards the consolidated kernel.  (Re-inventing gpiolib by moving
> them out of line isn't a good idea...)

Ok, I understand.

-- 
balbi
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