Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpio / ACPI: add ACPI support

[Mika Westerberg]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 03:40:14PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that we want to hook up _existing_ drivers to those things,
> > and they already use the global GPIO numbers, don't they?
> 
> Yes they do, usually this is either passed from the platform using platform
> data or handled by device tree lookups to individual drivers.
> 
> So you will have to modify each such existing driver to do ACPI
> probe akin to the DT codepath and call acpi_get_gpio() on every pin they
> need going forward. But that is the plan I guess.

Yes, that's the plan.

Do you think it is OK to go with this implementation (acpi_get_gpio()) for
now? We will try to make sure that the gpio_get() (or whatever it will be
called that time) supports ACPI as well.
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