Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/16] gpio: Add support for unified device properties interface

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:38:23 PM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:12:36AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > As a start, we could probably take the proposed device_for_each_child_node
> > and move that into the leds-core, changing the fw_dev_node argument
> > for an led_classdev with the addition of the of_node and acpi_object
> > members. It would still leave it up to the gpio-leds driver to do
> > 
> > 	if (led_cdev->of_node)
> > 		gpiod = devm_of_get_gpiod(led_cdev->of_node, ...);
> > 	else
> > 		gpiod = devm_acpi_get_gpiod(led_cdev->acpi_object, ...);
> > 
> > but there seems little benefit in abstracting this because there is
> > only one driver that needs it.
> 
> The same interface is used also in gpio_keys_polled.c driver so if we
> want to avoid duplicating code this needs to be abstracted away from the
> drivers.

Well, precisely.

Moving it to the leds-core doesn't buy us anything.

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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