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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: sch: Add interrupt support
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:33 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 08:20:19PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 7:05 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> > > On 26.04.19 16:42, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> > > > On 26.04.19 15:36, Jan Kiszka wrote:

> > The problem here is opaque number. This has to be chip + *relative* pin number/
> > See this:
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55532410/how-do-linux-gpio-numbers-get-their-values/55579640#55579640
> >
>
> But for platform like 96Boards we don't need controller specific lookup, these
> are all handled by the platform code [1] so that the users can use the standard
> pinout number to access GPIOs.

This is a complete mistake.

There is *no* global GPIO numbers anymore in Linux. (I don't count
very old legacy platforms)
Read above, it applies to DT or whatever resource provider.

> For instance, pin 23 on the Low Speed expansion
> header is the GPIO for all 96Boards platform, so the user can access that pin
> using 23 itself in the application and it will run across all supported
> 96Boards.
>
> That's one of the reason why we prefer MRAA.

> [1] https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa/blob/master/src/arm/96boards.c#L75

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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