From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761630AbYB1AnR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:43:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758407AbYB1AnB (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:43:01 -0500 Received: from smtp115.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.88]:44352 "HELO smtp115.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758221AbYB1AnA (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:43:00 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=irmQgmVcSIa+mi/DGHzAF1gGcSiCIHWIpJSXHe/zoWiN1BP2eqyWpw/g7zbnYhy7l2+x0/b4mjB7BAnzgemmUjeFtWCgT7DsLkG9/gn0vPLgZiQG0gNTrXAjBHbpbwn9SFlnrr6yOQv7uCzRCOCtAEg23rD89RM6NgbQ0g/PqkM= ; X-YMail-OSG: .JFq8rAVM1lt4QpGDRkYAOp9CyLibr36ynjQxl_ZOtftbbuHnVGVgyqmgDAbbEzuH.2w5V0Dww-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc2-git] gpio: and "no GPIO support here" stubs Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:42:57 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cbouatmailru@gmail.com, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu References: <200802221712.17815.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080227154854.6ee9432c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080227154854.6ee9432c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802271642.57895.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Add a defining fail/warn stubs for GPIO calls on platforms > > that don't support the GPIO programming interface. That includes the > > arch-specific implementation glue otherwise. > > > > This facilitates a new model for GPIO usage: drivers that can use GPIOs > > if they're available, but don't require them. ... > > > > Looks sane. > > > Please include before 2.6.25-final ... > > For what reason? So that 2.6.25 based systems can start to use it. This patch is in that "safe, can't break any existing code" category, so I don't see a downside. - Dave