Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:41:15 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpiolib/arches: Centralise bolierplate asm/gpio.h |
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On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 06:06:32PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 03:54:39PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > Rather than requiring architectures that use gpiolib but don't have any > > need to define anything custom to copy an asm/gpio.h provide a Kconfig > > symbol which architectures must select in order to include gpio.h and > > for other architectures just provide the trivial implementation directly. > > Hi Mark. > > There is an even simpler solution. > > For each arch that uses asm-generic/gpio.h add a line > to arch/$ARCH/include/asm/Kbuild like this: > > > generic-y += gpio.h > > This will then make this arch pick up the asm-generic version when > you do #include <asm/gpio.h>.
You're assuming that asm-generic/gpio.h was invented to be a replacement for an architecture asm/gpio.h. Unfortunately, things aren't that simple.
It would have been a lot better if asm-generic/gpio.h was tacked on the bottom of linux/gpio.h - because that's what it really is. It's core code features, not platform stuff.
What's platform specific about asm/gpio.h is the number of GPIOs in the system, and whether it wants to intercept the gpio_xxx() functions to provide fast access to on-chip GPIOs.
What I'd suggest is moving asm-generic/gpio.h to linux/gpiolib.h, and making asm-generic/gpio.h include that as a patch until stuff is fixed for its new location. That should result in a proper asm-generic/gpio.h being:
/* The trivial gpiolib dispatchers */ #define gpio_get_value __gpio_get_value #define gpio_set_value __gpio_set_value #define gpio_cansleep __gpio_cansleep #define gpio_to_irq __gpio_to_irq
and nothing else.
Alternatively, instead of linux/gpiolib.h, put it in linux/gpio.h instead, but that gets more icky because of the mess of asm/gpio.h includes (which I've been banging on for years about in ARM patches and they're _still_ coming.)
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