[PATCH RFC 2/5] drm/msm/hdmi: make use of standard gpio properties.

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 10/08/15 14:26, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:15:18PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/08/15 13:38, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:59:34PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>>>> This patch modifies the driver to support standard gpio properties along
>>>> with deprecated properties. This will help us upstream and cleanup the
>>>> non-standard properties over the time.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c
>>>> index 8145362..e918889 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/hdmi/hdmi.c
>>>> @@ -339,19 +339,34 @@ static const struct of_device_id dt_match[] = {
>>>>   };
>>>>
>>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_OF
>>>> +/* This code will be removed once we move to gpiod based calls */
>>>
>>> Why don't you do this now instead of duplicating what is essentially
>>> already implemented in gpiolib?
>>>
>> One of the thing that Rob asked in his comments
>> (http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg437675.html) was to retain the
>> support for old devices, moving to gpiod ATM would break such devices as
>> they are still using legacy gpiolib and its naming.
>>
>>
>> If Rob is ok to drop gpio properties which does not have "-gpio" or "-gpios"
>> suffix then we can get rid of this function all together.
>
> If you make the switch to gpiod_*() APIs you'll get this for free.
> There's really no need for having a duplicate of what gpiod_get()
> already does for you.
>
Yes, you are right, my memory was over written on friday by looking at 
of_find_gpio() for long :-)

AFAIK, gpiod_get would also request the gpios so we might want to remove 
the additional gpio requests in the hdmi_connector.c too.

I will give that a try once again..

--srini
> Thierry
>