[PATCH 1/3] gpio: Add APM X-Gene SoC GPIO controller support

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com> wrote:

> I see each bank as separate gpio chip. It is a simple way to
> abstract the banks since they can operate independently.

I think they should also be separate devices, and separate nodes
in the device tree.

> It also
> provided me a way to fix the sysfs gpio base number, regardless if
> a particular bank node is pulled out.

The GPIO sysfs is unpredictable for this and many other
reasons and should not be relied upon.

> This is also done in similar way
> in some other gpio drivers such as the dwapb gpio driver.

I think the dwapb has it's registers mingled while your banks
seem to be separate chunks.

Yours,
Linus Walleij