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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:40:06 +0400
From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: support for Synopsys DesignWare APB GPIO
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:22:44PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
[...]
> > As discussed earlier in the thread, you probably don't need to support
> > multiple banks with this driver.  Instead, create a separate device
> > instance for each bank.
> 
> The reason I proposed this was for controllers where the registers 
> aren't grouped together for each bank.  For example, the Synopsys block 
> has:
> 
> 	0x00-0x08 bank A control registers
> 	0x0c-0x14 bank B control registers
> 	...
> 	0x50	  bank A input register
> 	0x54	  bank B input register.

Which, I guess, is another point for "multiple resources" approach.
Grant?

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Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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