[PATCH v2 3/4] ARM: mxc: migrate mach-imx gpio driver to gpio-mxc

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jun 3 09:23:00 EDT 2011


On Friday 03 June 2011 11:54:14 Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> ...
> 
> > +void __init imx1_soc_init(void)
> > +{
> > +       mxc_register_gpio(0, MX1_GPIO1_BASE_ADDR, SZ_4K, MX1_GPIO_INT_PORTA, 0);
> > +       mxc_register_gpio(1, MX1_GPIO2_BASE_ADDR, SZ_4K, MX1_GPIO_INT_PORTB, 0);
> > +       mxc_register_gpio(2, MX1_GPIO3_BASE_ADDR, SZ_4K, MX1_GPIO_INT_PORTC, 0);
> > +       mxc_register_gpio(3, MX1_GPIO4_BASE_ADDR, SZ_4K, MX1_GPIO_INT_PORTD, 0);
> 
> By just reading the function names like "imx1_soc_init" we have really
> no clue of what it actually does.
> 
> "soc_init" is too vague IMHO. Could´t you change the names to
> something like "imx1_gpio_init" or "imx1_gpio_register".
> 
> It would be nice at least are dealing with gpio.

Olof and I asked Shawn to do it specifically this way, so we have a place
where more SOC specific initialization can be added without having to
change every single board file.

	Arnd



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