[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] LaCie/common: add support for the GPIO extension bus

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Guinot [mailto:simon.guinot at sequanux.org]
> Sent: 18 June 2013 15:59
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: Albert ARIBAUD; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] LaCie/common: add support for
> the GPIO extension bus
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:53:53PM -0700, Prafulla
> Wadaskar wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Simon Guinot
> [mailto:simon.guinot at sequanux.org]
> > > Sent: 18 June 2013 02:28
> > > To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> > > Cc: Albert ARIBAUD; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> > > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] LaCie/common: add support for
> the
> > > GPIO extension bus
...snip...

> At LaCie, this kind of bus is called a "GPIO extension
> bus". It is like
> a cheap GPIO expander.
> 
> >
> > So to me it those are "cpld_ios".
> 
> I am not sure that behind this kind of bus we always
> have a CPLD. I will
> check this. If it is the case, what do you think about
> cpld-gpio-bus ?

Even this sounds good to me, better than my suggestion earlier :).

> 
> Moreover as this "bus" is really a lacie specific stuff,
> should I
> prepend a "lacie-" prefix ?

This is not necessary I think.

Regards...
Prafulla . . .