Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: UniPhier: add driver for UniPhier GPIO controller

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Fri May 20 2016 - 00:31:22 EST


Hi Linus,


2015-07-16 16:48 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Linus,

>
> OK, I will do it in v4.


I has been away from my GPIO driver upstreaming
for a long time for some reason.

I sent v3 ten months ago.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494860/


In the meantime, there have been various updates
in the GPIO frame-work.

So, I'd like to know the recommended driver coding style
based on 4.7-rc1.


Diving into the git-log so far, I came up the following list:

[1] The "dev" member of gpiochip was renamed to "parent"

[2] The most recommended register function is now
devm_gpiochip_add_data()

[3] Pass the driver private data to the
3rd argument of devm_gpiochip_add_data().

[4] Do not use container_of() to covert
from gpiochip to driver private data.
Instead, gpiochip_get_data() should be used.

(I used of_mm_gpio_chip in v3,
but I needed to use container_of() to
convert from gpiochip to of_mm_gpio_chip.
I am wondering if you are happy with it or not.)

[5] gpiochip.owner is being deprecated.
So, platform drivers need not set
"gpiochip.owner = THIS_MODULE".


Correct?
Is there anything else missing?

Any advice is appreciated.


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada