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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:39:58 +0100
From: Ralf Schlatterbeck <rsc@runtux.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 02:38:27PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 12/02/2024 12:58, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> 
> GPIO expanders and their usage is nothing specific to this device -
> other devices also might benefit of them. Or the SoCs which have enough
> of GPIOs... I really do not understand why do we need expander here and
> how does it help

Can we then at least link the I/O Expander example to the docs of that
display?
I've documented my experience here:
https://blog.runtux.com/posts/2021/01/06/

And at the time there were two out-of-tree implementations.

Note that I think that redundancy in code is bad.
Not so for documentation.

Thanks + kind regards
Ralf
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