Dne Pá 30. července 2010 20:54:29 Paul Fidler napsal(a):
> On Jul 30 2010, Wookey wrote:
> >+++ Marek Vasut [2010-07-30 06:44 +0200]:
> >> Dne Čt 29. července 2010 12:00:41 Wookey napsal(a):
> >> > +++ Marek Vasut [2010-07-29 05:16 +0200]:
> >> > > Add supported for PCF8574A GPIO expander and LEDs attached to it.
> >> >
> >> > This IO board is an add-on used in some ballon configurations, not
> >> > part of the core board. There needs to be some way of selecting this
> >> > support when the loon is used in this configuration. We have the
> >> > balloon_has() macro which is used for dealing with the different
> >> > builds of the board itself. Perhaps it should be extended to deal with
> >> > add-on board functionality too?
> >> >
> >> > More obvious is using the CONFIG system to just enable this if
> >> > CUED_IO_BOARD is configured.
> >>
> >> You can just disable the PCF driver if you want to save space. In case
> >> you won't have the CUED board connected, the driver will just fail to
> >> probe so it's ok I believe.
> >>
> >> The macro could be extended, but do we want such a weird stuff in
> >> kernel?
> >
> > That was how this list suggested we deal with the unprobe-able build
> > variation, I beleive.
> >
> >> (especially if the driver can simply fail to probe).
>
> I'd strongly recommend not adding anything at all in the kernel
> to specifically support the CUED IO Board. The LEDs attached to
> the PCF8574 on the board can be driven from user space quite easily
> using programs such as as i2cset from the i2ctools package.
>
> We've been using these boards at CUED for a number of years now
> without any kernel support beyond i2c-pxa.ko and i2c-dev.ko.
>
> If support is added for these LEDs in the kernel, it would be nice
> if we could still write their PCF8574 device using the i2c-dev ioctls.
> It would be inconvenient (for us) if the only way to set these LEDs
> was by writing a 1 or 0 to /sys/devices/system/leds-gpio/balloon3:gpio:ledN
> (or similar).
And also _please_ keep the CC correct. Cheers
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Paul.
>
>
> Paul Fidler
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