Re: [PATCH v6] gpio: Add MOXA ART GPIO driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 29 November 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 November 2013, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >> +static void __iomem *moxart_gpio_base;
> >
> > Just one comment: the usual way to do such a driver is to have
> > a derived data structure like
> >
> > struct moxart_gpio_chip {
> >         struct gpio_chip chip;
> >         void __iomem *moxart_gpio_base;
> > };
> >
> > and dynamically allocate that from probe(), using container_of() to
> > get from the gpio_chip pointer to your own structure.
> 
> I see we make this comment a lot.
> 
> On my TODO there is an item to create
> Documentation/driver-model/design-patterns.txt
> 
> And document things like this. And other fun stuff like
> container_of().
> 
> What do you think about this idea?

Great idea!

	Arnd
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