Re: [PATCH] gpiolib/arches: Centralise bolierplate asm/gpio.h

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:44:14PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> i don't think this is generally how asm-generic is handled.  instead, how about:
>>  - move the duplicate code to asm-generic/gpio.h
>>  - have the arches which merely need asm-generic/gpio.h add "generic-y
>> += gpio.h" to their include/asm/Kbuild
>>  - for arches which need to override these common funcs in some way,
>> add #ifdef protection to the asm-generic/gpio.h
>
>> and it seems like with slightly more work, this path allow you to
>> merge most of arch/sh/include/asm/gpio.h.  and it has the advantage of
>> not needing new Kconfig symbols.
>
> That's really not how gpiolib is currently handled, unfortunately -
> trying to transition over to that model in one patch would be way too
> much.
>
> The goal here from that point of view is to make transitioning to
> something more sensible easier by getting rid of the boilerplate code,
> it makes doing the more invasive changes like you're suggesting much
> easier as we're only dealing with the architectures that are actually
> doing something.  It also means that we're able to immediately work on
> turning on gpiolib on random architectures which is a definite win.

I had picked up this patch, but I've dropped again from gpio/next
since there are still a lot of drivers including asm/gpio.h.  It
caused build breakage on linux-next with allmodconfig.

g.


-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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