Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: rfkill: gpio: remove gpio names

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 21:59:03 EST


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Gross, Mark <mark.gross@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So if you have the luxury of being able to influence (file bugs against or write)
> the platform enumeration ABI then with ACPI you can have a named gpio today.
> Note: there is an expectation that the _PRP feature to go into the next version
> of ACPI and that should enable a trivial 1-1 mapping (when _prp is used by the
> ACPI platform) between the different platform enumeration API's (DT and ACPI).

Oh I wasn't aware. This makes things better, and gives con_id a clear usecase
in the ACPI probe path as well.

[Stephen]
>> If there were ever an (upstream?) ACPI "binding"(?) for the Tegra SDHCI
>> controller, I would hope it would use the exact same names for the GPIO
>> signals.
>
> me to!

Amen to that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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