Hi Steven,
On 06/06/12 00:23, Steven King wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2012 11:27:04 pm Greg Ungerer wrote:
On 22/05/12 06:10, Steven King wrote:
If we're not connecting external GPIO extenders via i2c or spi or
whatever, we probably don't need GPIOLIB. If we provide an alternate
implementation of the GPIOLIB functions to use when only on-chip GPIO is
needed, we can change ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB to ARCH_WANTS_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
so that GPIOLIB becomes optional.
The downside is that in the GPIOLIB=n case, we lose all error checking
done by gpiolib, ie multiply allocating the gpio, free'ing gpio etc., so
that the only checking that can be done is if we reference a gpio on an
external part. Targets that need the extra error checking can still
select GPIOLIB=y.
For the case where GPIOLIB=y, we can simplify the table of gpio chips to
use a single chip, eliminating the tables of chips in the 5xxx.c files.
The original motivation for the definition of multiple chips was to match
the way many of the Coldfire variants defined their gpio as a spare array
in memory. However, all this really gains us is some error checking when
we request a gpio, gpiolib can check that it doesn't fall in one of the
holes. If thats important, I think we can still come up with a better
way of accomplishing that.
Also in this patch is some general cleanup and reorganizing of the gpio
header files (I'm sure I must have had a reason why I sometimes used a
prefix of mcf_gpio and other times mcfgpio but for the life of me I can't
think of it now).
Signed-off-by: Steven King<sfk...@fdwdc.com>
This looks pretty good to me. I like the simplified setup and use.
If you are still happy with it I can apply to the for-next branch of
the m68knommu git tree?
Yes, please do. Thanks.
Ok, done. I had a merge conflict on Kconfig.cpu, but I thinked I
fixed it up right.
Regards
Greg
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