Re: GPIO support for HTC Dream

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 15:45:15 EST


On Wed 2009-12-16 09:24:21, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >>> +int gpio_to_irq(unsigned gpio)
> >>> +{
> >>> + return -EINVAL;
> >>> +}
> >> This should probably just be an inline function in
> >> arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/gpio.h
> >
> > Well, it is not performance critical in any way and it is likely to
> > change in future. I'd leave it here.
>
> If this function eventually does do something interesting, it would be
> useful to have it as a macro in arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/gpio.h
> since it can be used for static/define declarations, ie:
>
> #define SOME_GPIO_IRQ gpio_to_irq(SOME_GPIO)

gpio_to_irq is defined as a function in Doc*/gpio.txt.

> >> static inline int irq_to_gpio(unsigned irq)
> >> {
> >> return -EINVAL;
> >> }
> >
> > I'd say that would be overdoing it.
>
> You should implement this if you have gpio_to_irq because it is part of
> the API, see include/linux/gpio.h

I'm implementing it. I just don't want to implement two inline
functions instead of one normal function.
Pavel
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