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Re: [PATCH] power: gpio_charger: switch to using GPIO descriptors

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> The GPIO charger is using a mix of the legacy GPIO interface
>> and <linux/of_gpio.h> which is not the modern way to use GPIOs.
>>
>> Refactor like this:
>>
>> - Use a GPIO descriptor for the GPIO line used to monitor the
>>   charger.
>> - Fetch the descriptor with devm_gpiod_get() as the first
>>   method.
>> - If this fails and we are *not* using device tree, then
>>   start looking to see if we can use platform data instead.
>> - After looking up and requesting a GPIO number with the
>>   legacy API, convert it to a descriptor.
>>
>> This way we can later isolate and drop the legacy code as
>> more platforms move over to using descriptors.
>>
>> Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
>> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> I would be very happy if some people can test this. I think
>> only the chromebook use it from device tree, but I'm equally
>> interested in the legacy usecase to work as nice as before.
>
> Since this is not tested on any hardware and we're already
> at rc7, I would prefer to take this after the merge window.
> Any reason this should go into v4.9?

No, there is no hurry.

>>  drivers/power/gpio-charger.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> This is obviously not based on power-supply's next branch, since
> I moved all drivers to drivers/power/supply.

I will rebase and resend after v4.9-rc1 then.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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Re: [PATCH] power: gpio_charger: switch to using GPIO descriptors Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-09-19 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] power: gpio_charger: switch to using GPIO descriptors Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-09-19 21:40 +0200

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