[U-Boot] [RFC 0/3] omap: gpio: User generic (instead of custom) API

[Premi, Sanjeev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Ceresoli [mailto:luca.ceresoli at comelit.it] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:19 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Paulraj, Sandeep; Igor Grinberg; 
> Enric Balletbo i Serra; Sunil Kumar; Shashi Ranjan; Menon, 
> Nishanth; Steve Sakoman
> Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] omap: gpio: User generic (instead of 
> custom) API
> 
> Hi Sanjeev,
> 
> Sanjeev Premi wrote:
> > The OMAP boards use a custom api for GPIO operations. While
> > it works, it doesn't help when when we don't know existence
> > of the customization.
> >
> > I earlier encountered the problem when looking for GPIO
> > related changes when submitting prev set of patches. Since
> > the search for gpio_request() in omap sources returned empty,
> > I had assumed that it isn't supported.
> >
> > This patchset attempts to adapt the current implementation
> > to use generic API.
> >
> > Since, the changes impact all OMAP boards, and I wouldn't be
> > able to test on all, I decided to submit changes as RFC.
> > Unless any major issue is found, I will be able to submit
> > as formal patch by end of this week.
> 
> Tested and working on the dig297 board, on top of the master
> branch in the u-boot-ti repository.
> 
> I also tried to merge your work on the u-boot-arm repo, but it
> conflicts with the GPIO work recently committed there. You might
> want to rebase and resubmit when the -ti repo will be in line with
> the -arm one.

Thanks. I didn't check the -arm repo; had based all patches on the
master @ git.denx.de/u-boot.git - assuming there won't been too many
changes since recent pull requests.

~sanjeev

(PS: Had to trim the cc: list to ensure message gets through...)

> Anyway, for the current version:
> Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at comelit.it>
> 
> Luca
>