Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] gpio: tegra: Add support for gpio debounce

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Monday 25 April 2016 10:25 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                       bank->int_lvl[p] = tegra_gpio_readl(tgi,
> > @@ -550,6 +598,9 @@ static int tegra_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >
> >          platform_set_drvdata(pdev, tgi);
> >
> > +       if (!config->debounce_supported)
> > +               tgi->gc->set_debounce = NULL;
> This last line is equivalent to doing
>
>       tegra_gpio_chip.set_debounce = NULL
>
> Which means that after that no one can reinstanciate this driver and
> use debounce. Granted, this does not happen in real life, but the
> purpose of the previous patch that removes all static variables is
> supposedly to make this scenario possible. I think you can easily fix
> this though: make tgi->gc a non-pointer member, do tgi->gc =
> tegra_gpio_chip to copy the initial data, and then set
> tgi->gc.set_debounce to NULL if needed.

As there is only single instance of the tegra gpio driver, I avoided the 
copy of the tegra_gpio_chip.
I am not expecting multiple instance of this driver and hence should be 
fine. When multiple instances are needed, it can be just use as:

But let me make this as you suggested.


> tegra_gpio_chip can then be made constant, and maybe even __initdata?
I have not seen the usage of __initdata now a days. I think it is 
removed from most of places.
Will use the const.