[PATCH 1/3] gpio: Add simple poweroff-gpio driver

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sun Nov 11 20:00:31 EST 2012


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:

> From: Jamie Lentin <jm at lentin.co.uk>
>
> Given appropriate devicetree bindings, this driver registers a
> pm_power_off function to set a GPIO line high/low to power down
> your board.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Lentin <jm at lentin.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

So this is just a GPIO client like any such thing right?

I mean this thing has nothing more to do with the GPIO subsystem
than say, drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c?

So from the GPIO subsystem point of view controlling power is
an alien concept.

But I suspect Anton may be ready to welcome a driver like this
under drivers/power/* which I think is where it belongs.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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