On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl> wrote:

> Board files constitute a significant part of the users of the legacy
> GPIO framework. In many cases they only export a line and set its
> desired value. We could use GPIO hogs for that like we do for DT and
> ACPI but there's no support for that in machine code.
>
> This patch proposes to extend the machine.h API with support for
> registering hog tables in board files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - kbuild bot complains about enum gpiod_flags having incomplete type
>   although it builds fine for me locally: change the type of dflags
>   to int

I like the idea and thinking behind this patch, so patch applied.

It's a bit of code to carry, so if it doesn't see any use, I will simply
revert it :)

But I bet you intend to follow up with some machine patches
and then it is immediately worth it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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