Re: [PATCH 2/9] ARM: at91/snapper9260: move gpio_to_irq out ofstructure initialization

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:02:20AM +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 14/02/12 01:43, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> 
> > gpio_to_irq() implementation will be moved from a macro to a
> > plain function: we cannot use it in a structure initialization
> > anymore.
> 
> What was the reason for the change? It was originally a macro for 
> exactly this reason.

gpio_to_irq() is supposed to work not only for built-in GPIOs, but also
GPIOs provided by other devices.  Having it as a definition which only
works for the SoC GPIOs is broken.
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