[PATCH 00/10] ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: replace custom I/O with GPIO

Jonathan McDowell noodles at earth.li
Mon Dec 12 00:00:22 EST 2011


On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 09:11:58PM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> The Amstrad Delta board has two extra output ports used for driving
> input lines of different on-board devices. Those ports are now
> controlled with custom functions, provided by the board arch code and
> used by several device drivers.
> 
> The idea behind the series is to replace those custom I/O functions
> with gpiolib API. This way, existing drivers can be made less platform
> dependent, and some of them perhaps even superseded with generic GPIO
> based drivers after the board platform device descriptions are
> converted. Moreover, should a new driver for the on-board Smart Card
> controller ever be created, it could be designed as a generic GPIO
> based driver, not a custom one.

Nice work; moving ams-delta over to gpiolib has been on my todo list for
a while (albeit quite low down).

J.

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