Re: [PATCH] gpio/gpio-generic: Add OF bindings

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Feb 26 2013 - 14:45:21 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:41:18AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:10:17 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Allow the platform driver to bind through OF. The existing
> > OF machinery for setting the resource names through OF is used to
> > configure the device, so the change is minimally intrusive and
> > fully featured.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thanks for looking at this. I've wanted this feature for a while now,
> but I haven't liked the bindings that I've seen so far because each
> individual register is broken out into separate reg tuples. Blech. Too
> much unlike existing bindings.

Thanks for looking at the patch. I agree with your comments, and will
try to find some time to fiddle with this - but I can't give it a very
high priority..

Regards,
Jason
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