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From: ibr@radix50•net (Baurzhan Ismagulov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Voipac PXA270
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:45:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100323154515.GE9581@radix50.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100323140727.GZ30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de>

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:07:27PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > What is the recommended method to abstract that? For example, I have two
> > boards with different GPIO pins assigned to mean certain external
> > signals. I also ended up with GPIO definitions in a header, which is
> > used by the driver, and I'd like to clean this up.
> 
> Make up a struct to pass as platform_data. Fill it in your board code
> and pass down a reference to the actual driver. The driver code should
> then only use resources referenced by the platform data.

Thanks! This is what I was looking for.


> This is common practice, just have a look how most other driver do it.

Yes, easy when one knows what to grep for ;) . My driver didn't have
platform_device yet, so I'll have to do that first.


With kind regards,
-- 
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-23 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10  1:47 [PATCH] Voipac PXA270 Marek Vasut
2010-03-10  6:18 ` Mike Rapoport
2010-03-10 11:37   ` Marek Vasut
2010-03-10 13:35     ` Daniel Mack
2010-03-10 15:20       ` Marek Vasut
2010-03-22  2:10         ` Eric Miao
2010-03-23 13:21           ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
2010-03-23 14:07             ` Daniel Mack
2010-03-23 15:45               ` Baurzhan Ismagulov [this message]
2010-03-22  2:21     ` Eric Miao

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