[PATCH 02/15] GPIO: port LoCoMo gpio support from old driver

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Nov 14 02:11:51 PST 2014


On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
<dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to better understand your suggestions: do you want me to convert
> to regmap only gpio driver or do you suggest to convert all LoCoMo drivers?

Um... I was just thinking about this one usecase.

It's no big deal, the other review comments are more important.

> That is doable, of course, but the amount of changes is overwhelming.
> Also I'm concerned about the performance impact from going through
> regmap layers.

Is it on a critical path? The current locking isn't any less invasive
AFAICT.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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