Re: GPIO support for HTC Dream

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:24:58PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 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.

> I tried going through drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c and it seems to be a lot
> of code -- mostly sysrq interface to userland. I'm not sure how much
> code could be shared... 

Everything in generic_gpio.c could easily be shared, which also gives
you all the standard APIs drivers and userspace expect without having to
reimplement them or ending up with slightly incompatible implementations.
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