Re: [PATCH 2/5] gpiolib / ACPI: convert to gpiod interfaces

[Mika Westerberg]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:26:14AM -0700, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:45:08AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> >> > I also wonder whether you could also avoid exporting acpi_get_gpiod*
> >> > (which allow GPIO consumers to shortcut gpiolib) by implementing
> >> > acpi_get_gpio* into the C file (maybe even using gpiod_get()). I see a
> >> > "char *path" parameter though, so maybe that would not be possible at
> >> > the moment.
> >>
> >> Good point, I'll check if we can do that.
> >
> > Looks like we can get rid of acpi_get_gpio() and acpi_get_gpiod() as there
> > are no users for those outside gpiolib-acpi. I'm going to do that in the
> > next revision.
> 
> That's good news. If you can make it such that ACPI GPIO consumers
> don't need to include acpi_gpio.h anymore, then this would make my
> day. :)

We can get rid of the whole apci_gpio.h eventually. But before doing that I
would like to have something that supports both the ACPI way and gpiod way
in v3.13 if possible.

Once we have gpiod_get_index() in mainline, we can convert the existing
user to it and drop acpi_gpio.h completely.
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