From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] Input: ad7879: support auxiliary GPIOs via gpiolib Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:46:15 -0500 Message-ID: <8bd0f97a1001070846s26a98899sbb9c6caaffd57c68@mail.gmail.com> References: <1262848702-24968-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20100107073114.GC2314@core.coreip.homeip.net> <201001071116.19616.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com ([209.85.221.192]:49689 "EHLO mail-qy0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752174Ab0AGQqg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:46:36 -0500 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so8467231qyk.33 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:46:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201001071116.19616.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Getz Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Dmitry Torokhov , "Hennerich, Michael" , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:16, Robin Getz wrote: > On Thu 7 Jan 2010 02:31, Dmitry Torokhov pondered: >> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:18:22AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > From: Michael Hennerich >> > >> > Drop the simple fancy sysfs hooks for the aux GPIOs and expose the= se via >> > the gpiolib interface so that other drivers can use them. >> >> Would not that mess up current users (if any) that may rely on the >> existing sysfs attributes? > > We have talked =C2=A0to the existing users of this (that we know of),= and they > agreed that doing things the "standard" way with gpiolib is the bette= r way to > move forward on things. there is a standard sysfs interface for accessing gpios already too which this change allows people to utilize -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html