[PATCH v2 0/4] auxdisplay: 7 segment LED display

[Chris Packham]

On 28/02/24 13:05, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:22 PM Chris Packham
> <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
>> This series adds a driver for a 7 segment LED display.
>>
>> At this point I've decided not to pursue supporting >1 character. I had
>> a look at what would be required to add a devm_fwnode_gpiod_get_array()
>> and got bogged down in OF and ACPI code for counting GPIOs.
> Out of curiosity, why did it happen? gpiod_count() works in an agnostic way.
>
At first I though I could create a fwnode_gpiod_count() out of the body 
of gpiod_count(). But both of_gpio_get_count() and acpi_gpio_count() 
take the dev not the fwnode. It looks like gpiod_count() (and 
of_gpio_spi_cs_get_count()) could probably be re-written (or abstracted) 
to take the device_node instead of the device. I started looking at 
acpi_gpio_count() but I couldn't quite see how I could adapt this.

I'm definitely not saying it can't be done. Just that you probably don't 
want an occasional contributor like me messing with some of these core 
device abstractions.