[PATCH 03/10] gpio: samsung: move gpio-samsung driver back to platform code
Krzysztof Kozlowski
k.kozlowski at samsung.com
Mon Nov 30 16:34:18 PST 2015
On 26.11.2015 01:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The gpio-samsung driver is special in the sense that it
> interacts directly in multiple ways with the legacy platform
> code for the s3c24xx and s3c64xx platforms. In contrast,
> all devicetree based machines for Samsung, including the
> ones on those two SoC families use a different driver.
>
> The header files that define the interface between the platform
> code and the gpio driver are not visible when building a
> kernel for ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, which prevents us from
> turning on this option for s3c64xx.
>
> To work around this, we now move the driver back into platform
> code, from where it was originally moved to as part of commit
> 1b39d5f2cc5c28 ("gpio/samsung: gpio-samsung.c to support
> Samsung GPIOs").
>
> The long-term plan for this driver would be to remove it
> entirely, after all Samsung machines have been converted
> over to boot from DT, but there is currently no timeline
> for when that might happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig | 3 +++
> arch/arm/plat-samsung/Makefile | 2 ++
> {drivers/gpio => arch/arm/plat-samsung}/gpio-samsung.c | 0
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 7 -------
> drivers/gpio/Makefile | 1 -
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> rename {drivers/gpio => arch/arm/plat-samsung}/gpio-samsung.c (100%)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig
> index 57729b915003..83697414bfa0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig
> @@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ config SAMSUNG_WDT_RESET
> Compile support for system restart by triggering watchdog reset.
> Used on SoCs that do not provide dedicated reset control.
>
> +config GPIO_SAMSUNG
> + def_bool SAMSUNG_ATAGS
> +
I think this should be put inside "if SAMSUNG_ATAGS" section, just
before SAMSUNG_PM_GPIO (with default=y?). It makes more consistent with
rest of the options depending on ATAGS.
Rest seems fine:
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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