[PATCH 3/8] gpio: 74x164: Remove platform data and use dynamic gpio number assignment

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 5 05:15:28 EDT 2012


Le Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:48:14 +0200,
Florian Fainelli <florian at openwrt.org> a écrit :

> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:40:52 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> 
> No, please don't do it that way, rather check if the platform_data pointer is 
> null, and if it is, fall-back to dynamic gpio base assignment. There is a 
> currently out of tree user of this for which it matters to be able to set a 
> specific gpio base numbering.

Do we care about out of tree users?

Thomas
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