Re: GPIO support for HTC Dream

[Ryan Mallon]

Ryan Mallon wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Add GPIO support for HTC Dream.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
>>
>> +int register_gpio_chip(struct gpio_chip *new_gpio_chip)
>> +{

...

> 
> This is still really screwy. Why are you creating your own version of
> struct gpio_chip in addition to the one in include/asm-generic/gpio.h
> (which you also appear to include in some places). It makes the code
> extremely confusing. Other architectures use wrapper structures. Can you
> have something like this instead:
> 
> 	struct dream_gpio_chip {
> 		struct gpio_chip chip;
> 
> 		/* Dream specific bits */
> 	};
> 
> The name of this function also needs to be changed to something less
> generic since it is being exported globally.
> 
> I also think this function is doing way to much work for what it is.
> Does it really need to be this complicated?

Further to this, I think it is worth doing the work to make this gpiolib
now. Most of the other ARM chips now support gpiolib, so it would seem a
bit of a step backwards to start adding new chips which don't. I think
that adding the gpiolib support will also cleanup the mess that is
register_gpio_chip, since this is all already handled by the gpiolib core.

~Ryan

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