Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:57:54 +0100 | From | Haavard Skinnemoen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH, take 2] watchdog on generic gpio |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:03:14 +0100 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu> wrote:
> Le lundi 14 janvier 2008, Marc Pignat a écrit : > > Hi Florian! > > I understand your wish, but... > > You told me that your plaform doesn't implement the generic gpio > > interface (yet?), so this driver can't work for you. > > You understood me wrong, I told you that not all platforms, actually > only AVR32 and ARM seem to make use of David Brownell's gpiolib, but > the MIPS board I am working with supports the "old" generic GPIO API > which required you to define your own wrappers for gpio_set/get_value > and such. For both implementations the config symbol is GENERIC_GPIO, > which can somehow be confusing.
GENERIC_GPIO means that some implementation of the generic GPIO API is present. Gpiolib is a specific implementation of that API which architectures may choose to utilize -- it doesn't change anything that drivers should care about.
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