Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add support for IDT 79RC3243x GPIO controller

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Apr 21 2021 - 04:32:41 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:09:51AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > IDT 79RC3243x SoCs integrated a gpio controller, which handles up
> > to 32 gpios. All gpios could be used as interrupt source.
>
>
>
> I would recommend looking for latest new drivers in GPIO subsystem to see
> how you may improve yours.

Could give me a better pointer to it ? I looked at a lot of gpio driver
and took what fitted best.

> Here just one question, why it can not be a module

that's probably doable...

> why arch_initcall() is used

without that interrupts weren't avaiable early enough.

> and why you put a dead code into it (see the first part of the
> question)?

hmm, pointer please ?

> I will perform a deep review later on.

thank you.

Thomas.

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