[PATCH 2/4] wl1251: move power GPIO handling into the driver

Sebastian Reichel sre at debian.org
Sun Oct 27 16:12:20 EDT 2013


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:24:16PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > Move the power GPIO handling from the board code into
> > the driver. This is a dependency for device tree support.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre at debian.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3pandora.c     |  2 ++
> >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-peripherals.c | 11 ++--------
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/sdio.c        | 21 +++++++++++++-----
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/spi.c         | 33 ++++++++++++++++++----------
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/wl1251.h      |  2 +-
> >  include/linux/wl12xx.h                       |  2 +-
> >  6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> ...
> > diff --git a/include/linux/wl12xx.h b/include/linux/wl12xx.h
> > index b516b4f..a9c723b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/wl12xx.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/wl12xx.h
> > @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ enum {
> >  };
> >  
> >  struct wl1251_platform_data {
> > -	void (*set_power)(bool enable);
> > +	int power_gpio;
> >  	/* SDIO only: IRQ number if WLAN_IRQ line is used, 0 for SDIO IRQs */
> >  	int irq;
> >  	bool use_eeprom;
> > -- 
> 
> What a reason for not using regulator API here with GPIO-based
> regulator?

I think this pin is not used as power supply, but like an enable pin
for low power states. Of course the regulator API could still be
(mis?)used for this, but I think it would be the first linux device
driver doing this.

Note: I don't have wl1251 documentation.

-- Sebastian
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