[alsa-devel] [PATCH] gpio: add GPIOF_ values regardless on kconfig settings

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:04:52AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> I ended up not pushing this one to Linus.  Turns out it causes other
>> breakage on other platforms that don't include include/linux/gpio.h.
>> Since I don't have confidence that I'll be able to find all the
>> offenders, I'm dropping it.  I recommend making any drivers that are
>
> So, this originally came about because I pushed back on adding random
> dependencies like this for features which are pretty much optional in
> drivers - their use of GPIOs is totally optional and the dependencies
> are just too fragile, leading to noise with all the randconfigs.  It
> seems better to get the architectures to keep up with enhancements to
> gpiolib (or convert to it) than to have to worry about this in drivers.

Fair enough.  Randy, if you or someone else can check that all GPIOF_
users have the required #include <linux/gpio.h>, then I'm okay with
this patch.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.