[PATCH] gpiolib: let gpiochip_add_pin_range() specify offset

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Tue Nov 20 07:55:52 EST 2012


On 20 November 2012 17:15, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com> wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> Like with commit 3c739ad0df5eb41cd7adad879eda6aa09879eb76
> it is not always enough to specify all the pins of a gpio_chip
> from offset zero to be added to a pin map range, since the
> mapping from GPIO to pin controller may not be linear at all,
> but need to be broken into a few consecutive sub-ranges or
> 1-pin entries for complicated cases. The ranges may also be
> sparse.
>
> This alters the signature of the function to accept offsets
> into both the GPIO-chip local pinspace and the pin controller
> local pinspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>

Aren't there any users of this routine?

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viresh



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