Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:28:19 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] GPIO: Add gpio_lookup
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:10:40 -0700
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Not real keen on this; see separate emails, and below.

OK, so the story I'm getting is that each driver needs to set up its
own mechanism for obtaining GPIO numbers - it needs to create its own
lookup mechanism.  That's fine, I can do that; I just thought it made
sense to make use of the information that's already there.

Andrew, you might as well drop the patch.

(I'm less worried about the uniqueness side, BTW; it just means drivers
need to create meaningful names for their GPIOs.)

Thanks,

jon
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