From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Add user configurable GPIO-lib support
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:27:23 +0200
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On Tuesday 01 July 2008 13:19:18 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> 
> > > ... and thus perhaps your GPIO_USERSELECTION patch should move into 
> > > drivers/ and be generally accessible, not special to x86?
> > 
> > Yes I'd really like to move it there, too. But currently that clashes 
> > with architectures like MIPS, some PPC flavours and probably others 
> > that implement their own GPIO API. We should have an 
> > ARCH_IMPLEMENT_GPIO or whatever, but currently we don't seem to have 
> > that.
> > 
> > So well. If it's desired to put the user selection into drivers/gpio 
> > (which I'd really prefer), I can try to make a patch that adds 
> > ARCH_IMPLEMENT_GPIO to every arch that implements their own GPIO API 
> > and make GPIO_USERSELECTION depend on !ARCH_IMPLEMENT_GPIO.
> 
> or we could try it the other way around: stick 
> ARCH_ALLOWS_TRULY_GENERAL_PURPOSE_INPUT_OUTPUT (note: please use a 
> better name ;-) into x86, add the user text to drivers/ and let other 
> architectures enable it too?
> 
> That way your commits would still be pretty focused (you'd avoid having 
> to touch a lot of architectures) and it would still work all across the 
> spectrum.
> 
> hm?

Yeah great idea :)
I'll make a patch later.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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