From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933051AbXCHS5W (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:57:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933054AbXCHS5W (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:57:22 -0500 Received: from mail.emacinc.com ([63.245.244.68]:53654 "EHLO mail.emacinc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933051AbXCHS5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:57:21 -0500 From: NZG Organization: EMAC.Inc To: "Haavard Skinnemoen" Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:57:49 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Ben Nizette" , "Linux Kernel list" References: <200703061246.29615.ngustavson@emacinc.com> <200703071037.00322.ngustavson@emacinc.com> <1defaf580703081041m5bfbef6t41e911b2dc88667a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1defaf580703081041m5bfbef6t41e911b2dc88667a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703081257.49651.ngustavson@emacinc.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 63.245.244.67 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ngustavson@emacinc.com Subject: Re: passing function pointers through platform devices? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Relay: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c20386c8d0719b42503efe65abe47ad3fb3d711 > Your mail seems to be about a gpio userspace interface, which is > something entirely different from an in-kernel API, Sort of, IMHO sysfs classes seems the logical final incarnation for user space access. But to get there it has to migrate down from the machine layer to something that declares it's mapping to the pins on a board. However, just like gpio.txt discusses I am using them to detect MMC insertion, so I needed standard way to declare the pin. This provides that, thank you. NZG