Re: [PATCH] pio: add arch specific gpio_is_valid() function

From: Nicolas Ferre
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 04:19:56 EST


Le 23/08/2010 18:36, David Brownell :
>
>
> --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [PATCH] pio: add arch specific gpio_is_valid() function
>
> What's the rationale? It's valid or not. And there's already a
> function whose job it is to report that status ... which is set up
> for arch customization.

How do you customize it? I would like to keep the benefit of gpiolib
implementation.
In arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/gpio.h we include the
asm-generic/gpio.h. That is why I protect the generic code with
__HAVE_ARCH_GPIO_IS_VALID.

With this, we can keep the benefit of having an inline function.

> Which ISTR worked fine for AT91 (among other
> platforms) ...

Well the standard function:
return ((unsigned)number) < ARCH_NR_GPIOS;
is not suitable for AT91 as said in the thread.

Best regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre

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