Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.19-rc5] arch-neutral GPIO calls

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David Brownell wrote:

On Monday 13 November 2006 11:43 am, Bill Gatliff wrote:
Maybe we should codify an approach for that now, i.e. add to the reference implementation some code that hands off out-of-range GPIO lines to a function in the machine descriptor:


+static inline int gpio_direction_input(unsigned gpio)
+	{ if (gpio < OMAP_MAX_ARCH_GPIO) return __gpio_set_direction(gpio, 1);
+	  else if(mdesc->platform_gpio_set_direction) platform_gpio_set_direction(gpio, 1); }


... conveniently neglecting the way you find mdesc.  :)

Nah; look at arch/arm/plat-omap/gpio.c and ignore the mess, but observe
that what you see there is essentially a bunch of "gpio controller"
classes using the ugly "switch(type)" dispatch scheme instead of the
prettier "type->op()" dispatch scheme.  All that stuff needs to be
cleaner, but for now it'd suffice to add a new FPGA typecode.

Agreed. But if we add to the machine descriptor, then not only do you not need to touch arch-omap/gpio.c, but you can take that switch statement out, too. Just one less chunk of code to tweak when a new platform is supported.


b.g.

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