Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] gpiolib: some fixup patches
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 01:21:53 EST
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been playing with an idea of pulling in some basic MMIO gpio
> access directly into gpiolib so that when appropriate gpiolib itself
> can have a fast path for doing the register access and shadow register
> management.
Shadow registers: isn't that what regmap usually does? Or
what are you referring to here?
But fastpath MMIO in the gpiolib is an appealing thought,
given that this was a design impetus in the early history of
the subsystem.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/