Adding the author of gpio-of-helper. Also, conversations flow more smoothly if you avoid top-posting.
Jiří Prchal <jiri.prc...@aksignal.cz> writes: > Dne 12.11.2013 03:36, Ben Gamari napsal(a): >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: >>> But maybe I'm missing your point - could you describe a concrete >>> use-case for this feature that can *not* be achieved using >>> gpio_export_with_link()? >> >> For what it's worth, it seems that the gpio-of-helper[1] driver found in >> BeagleBoard kernels targets a use-case similar to that intended by this >> patch. >> > Hi Ben, > probably it's what I' trying to do. > Why it is not in master tree? > I'm not entirely sure. It doesn't seem fit for upstream at the moment given it seems to take a very similar approach to your patch and lacks any form of documentation. > Please, send me some example of DT usage. > Here[1] is one that Google turned up. There is plenty more to be found as well. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/blob/3.8/firmware/capes/cape-bebopr-brdg-R2.dts#L95
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