From: Linus Walleij [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 21:27
To: Barry Song
Cc: LKML; Barry Song; Linux GPIO List; DL-SHA-WorkGroupLinux
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] RFT: pinctrl: sirf: switch to using allocated state 
container

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Barry Song <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2014-05-09 19:53 GMT+08:00 Linus Walleij <[email protected]>:
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Barry Song <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 2014-04-24 5:16 GMT+08:00 Linus Walleij <[email protected]>:
>>
>>>> This rewrites the SIRF pinctrl driver to allocate a state container
>>>> for the GPIO chip, just as is done for the pin controller, and
>>>> use the gpiochip_add_pin_range() to add the range from the gpiochip
>>>> side rather than adding the range from the pinctrl side.
>>>>
>>>> All resulting changes are done in order to pass around a state
>>>> container rather than refer to a static global object.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Linus, thanks! but this breaks prima2 pinctrl subsystem, do you have an 
>>> idea?
>>> otherwise i will do a debug to find the reason.
>>
>> Unfortunately no :-(
>>
>> This is the downside of dry-coding ... I rely on others to help out.
>>
>> See it as a suggestion to what I think should be refactored and how,
>> I'll keep it on a branch as some "TODO" item for the moment.
>>
>
>> after moving pinctrl name from sirfsoc-gpio* to dev_name(&pdev->dev) as 
>> below:
>> - err = gpiochip_add_pin_range(&sgpio->chip.gc, "sirfsoc-gpio*",
>> + err = gpiochip_add_pin_range(&sgpio->chip.gc, dev_name(&pdev->dev),
>>
>> Acked-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>

>Does this mean it works with that change so it's a Tested-by?

yes. with the above change.

>I don't want to apply it if something breaks...

>Yours,
>Linus Walleij

-barry

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