Hi Simon, > Hi Lukasz, > > On 14 April 2014 01:17, Lukasz Majewski <l.majew...@samsung.com> > wrote: > > [snip[ > > I think your questions are mostly answered but I wanted to chime in > on a few. > > What is wrong with specifying the bank field? > > Why your gpio command cannot use the bank approach? > > > > U-Boot has a generic GPIO API and we should try to use it where > possible. This has been a long-standing TODO for exynos.
I'm also fully aware that Exynos suffers from inconsistent gpio API. However, I'm very glad that with Akshay's and our effort this goal will be accomplished :-) > > > > > > And one more question: Is this work compliant with new driver model, > > which will be accepted at the merge window after the v2014.04 > > release? > > > > If not, then there is no point to review this code, since GPIO would > > need to be adjusted to use this framework. > > > > The driver model framework is already in mainline. I was rather thinking about the "big switch" as we did with KBUILD after the v2014.01. Anyway, I'm looking forward to see the wide deployment of device model in u-boot. > At present only > sandbox uses it for GPIO. I started looking at exynos since I thought > it might be quite easy to convert, but found that the generic GPIO > stuff was still not merged. > > This series will make it much easier to convert exynos GPIO to driver > model, since we can just change the driver. Thanks for clarification. > > Regards, > Simon > -- Best regards, Lukasz Majewski Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
