[PATCH] Voipac PXA270

Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr at radix50.net
Tue Mar 23 11:45:16 EDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:07:27PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > What is the recommended method to abstract that? For example, I have two
> > boards with different GPIO pins assigned to mean certain external
> > signals. I also ended up with GPIO definitions in a header, which is
> > used by the driver, and I'd like to clean this up.
> 
> Make up a struct to pass as platform_data. Fill it in your board code
> and pass down a reference to the actual driver. The driver code should
> then only use resources referenced by the platform data.

Thanks! This is what I was looking for.


> This is common practice, just have a look how most other driver do it.

Yes, easy when one knows what to grep for ;) . My driver didn't have
platform_device yet, so I'll have to do that first.


With kind regards,
-- 
Baurzhan Ismagulov
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