On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 04:45 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> From: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
>>
>> Like with commit 3c739ad0df5eb41cd7adad879eda6aa09879eb76
>> it is not always enough to specify all the pins of a gpio_chip
>> from offset zero to be added to a pin map range, since the
>> mapping from GPIO to pin controller may not be linear at all,
>> but need to be broken into a few consecutive sub-ranges or
>> 1-pin entries for complicated cases. The ranges may also be
>> sparse.
>>
>> This alters the signature of the function to accept offsets
>> into both the GPIO-chip local pinspace and the pin controller
>> local pinspace.
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
>
> Although perhaps rename the new "offset" parameter to "gpio_base" or
> "gpio_offset", just like the existing "pin_base" rather than
> pin/base/offset?

OK I'll rename it...

I've also made a fat notice that this isn't currently covered
by the OF GPIO range bindings as a follow-on patch.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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