Re: [PATCH v2] of_gpio: Return GPIO flags from of_get_gpio()

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 17:32:09 EST


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:38:51AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
[...]
> > > drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_upm.c | 2 +-
> > > drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c | 2 +-
> > > drivers/net/phy/mdio-ofgpio.c | 4 ++--
> > > drivers/of/gpio.c | 13 ++++++++++---
> > > drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c | 2 +-
> > > include/linux/of_gpio.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
> > > 6 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> That would need acks from Jeff Garzik and David Woodhouse.
>
> Alternatively you could add a new function (called, for instance,
> of_get_gpio_flags) with the extra parameter to eliminate the need to
> change any drivers at this stage, since they all seem to pass NULL for
> the flags argument.

:-))

This was _exactly_ my initial approach, but Trent and Grant thought
that changing API would be easy. Hah-ha!

Here is my initial patch implementing of_get_gpio_flags():
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/25/236

Trent, are you going to push your patch through all the
maintainers, or should we, after all, revert to my approach
instead?

Thanks,

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