[PATCH 0/2] RFC: gpio: driver-local pin configuration

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Jun 27 08:37:32 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 01:44:43PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> Yes. To make the driver platform neutral, it needs to for example
>> provide a callback in the platform data like (* set_pin_bias) or so,
>> and then your platform has to implement this biasing.
>
>> In this specific case that kind of stuff would likely be preferable
>> to have in the platform anyway, but I understand what you mean.
>
> How about device tree usage?  I guess there we'd end up doing it by
> putting the configuration on the GPIO end of things rather than on the
> GPIO user side?

Sorry I can't quite understand that, please elaborate!

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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