Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764610AbYGAB56 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:57:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757529AbYGAB5r (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:57:47 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:56917 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755090AbYGAB5q (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:57:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add btgpio driver From: Marcel Holtmann To: Michael Buesch Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , mchehab@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <200807010206.38714.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200807010206.38714.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:57:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1214877479.11537.101.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 24 Hi Michael, > This adds the btgpio driver. > The purpose of the btgpio driver is to export all of the 24 GPIO pins > available on Brooktree 8xx chips to the kernel GPIO infrastructure. > > This makes it possible to use a physically modified BT8xx card as > cheap digital GPIO card. do you mind calling the driver bt8xxgpio. I am a little bit worried that we otherwise clash with a potential Bluetooth GPIO driver at some point. The new generation of generic Bluetooth drivers are using bt* as names (like btsdio, btusb etc.). Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/