Hi Linus,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Walleij [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 27 October 2015 15:11
> To: Pramod Kumar
> Cc: Rob Herring; Pawel Moll; Mark Rutland; Ian Campbell; Kumar Gala; Ray Jui;
> Scott Branden; Russell King; [email protected]; bcm-kernel-feedback-
> list; Jason Uy; Masahiro Yamada; Thomas Gleixner; Laurent Pinchart;
> [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; Jonas Gorski
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] dt-binding: Add ngpios property to GPIO controller
> node
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Pramod Kumar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Add ngpios property to the gpio controller's DT node so that
> > controller driver extracts total number of gpio lines present in
> > controller from DT and removes dependency on driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pramod Kumar <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
> (...)
> > +- ngpios:
> > + Total number of GPIOs the controller provides
>
> This description is wrong. The number of GPIOs the controller *provides* is to
> be determined by the compatible-string.
>
> ngpios is used to restrict the number of lines *used* or *routed* from the
> number *available*. (I hope that is what the code does as well.) Such as if 12
> GPIOs are used of the 32 available on 32bits in a register.
>
> Update this description to say what it really means.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
Thanks for reviewing . Will update the description.
Regards,
Pramod
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