[PATCH 2/9] ARM: at91/snapper9260: move gpio_to_irq out of structure initialization

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Feb 14 04:48:35 EST 2012


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:02:20AM +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 14/02/12 01:43, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> 
> > gpio_to_irq() implementation will be moved from a macro to a
> > plain function: we cannot use it in a structure initialization
> > anymore.
> 
> What was the reason for the change? It was originally a macro for 
> exactly this reason.

gpio_to_irq() is supposed to work not only for built-in GPIOs, but also
GPIOs provided by other devices.  Having it as a definition which only
works for the SoC GPIOs is broken.



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