Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933436Ab2BBTp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:45:57 -0500 Received: from na3sys009aog101.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.67]:53887 "EHLO na3sys009aog101.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932680Ab2BBTp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:45:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:45:50 +0200 From: Felipe Balbi To: Grant Likely Cc: Felipe Balbi , Tarun Kanti DebBarma , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, khilman@ti.com, tony@atomide.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Charulatha V Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/25] gpio/omap: remove dependency on gpio_bank_count Message-ID: <20120202194545.GA29351@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Reply-To: balbi@ti.com References: <1328203851-20435-1-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <1328203851-20435-2-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <20120202184106.GC29215@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> <20120202191630.GT15343@ponder.secretlab.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120202191630.GT15343@ponder.secretlab.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2645 Lines: 68 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:16:30PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:41:07PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:00:27PM +0530, Tarun Kanti DebBarma wrote: > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c > > > index 0b05629..6ea7390 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c > > > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c > > > @@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ > > > #include > > > #include > > > =20 > > > +static LIST_HEAD(omap_gpio_list); > >=20 > > I guess it's now too late because patch is acked and everything, but I > > think if you make the driver handle one bank alone and just instantiate > > it multiple times (omap_gpio.0, omap_gpio.1, omap_gpio.3, etc) driver > > would be faaaaaar simpler. >=20 > Is there any shared state between the banks? On my very cursory glance it > looked like banks still have some interaction between them. If not, then > yes I agree that multiple instances would be better. A quick glance at the TRM shows that banks have separate address spaces and IRQ lines. I think it's done this way because we can handoff one (or more) bank to other cores on the SoC, so they need to be pretty independent. I could be missing something though. --=20 balbi --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPKufpAAoJEIaOsuA1yqREhXoP/RNcQWnfcr5pv76ySF1cita9 XzTgVo64I0pJ2FxrrEGDWT0YsFIkL9NMTyojZiGmvCaxdQYcGk+OWzEdIt02tsXu ezk3DrWRndxM4P3wLoiRqTVt0NzUxNAU3Rt+6fBs1u3Ofxig8BQOtg8RlM87D9O7 RA6sU2KKM3H+yPWuW62CHu9DSqyIzjzgeEHeW1fiKAfzInMj04MwFvCV+bZ+PuOe KtlHAnIhyChq3wNubtErEX2w2n9ak/S/p0T9APWywZyWfJwhZ4Mmg9Hxna4gPnDr kTcuvHIwkcss7D4m96foEz7w2rtfTPSEhu8JNI/gk0vik6rNSMMe/k4ZVcTelPS9 2Qy2LsAVKihwvD8s+rFHHTdUgfvks+PMpoQ5Gk869ORwiq9cGgq9tq+nn6bRZRJ+ OIllCsLN178xA+sQRZSaTJxVjrMtg7IHSMhY6Vfclh+E098AJxP4aQGF4mJF/MUa xLADMHkPaUZh+lJKi8Rcs6Eu66ibNM9x7XeODmoE+oVpC8ycerHILJR3mUO5jdOi 9Mk30AtJ9PfWWr6nJMkYzeWGahoE0XS31ozemUs62DJVAi6F64hoIlBQSU7hcuKV 7Bvcxxj7V0XT/hE/b50FuYUSyfeTXR1reHabE/l4udugnpYw4VDsKKiEjHEGSUs7 mIlmW4mzv6TChVen/lRe =atn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn-- -- 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/