[OpenWrt-Devel] kernel module runtime configuration

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Brent,

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Brent Thomson <brentthomson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all. I'm working on my first Linux kernel module. It's an
> adaptation of an hd44780-over-GPIO driver. You can see it here:
>
>     https://github.com/brnt/openwrt-hd44780
>
> The driver is working fine, but I'd like to allow the user to
> configure which GPIOs are used by the driver. Rather than hard-coding
> the values in the C file (as they're currently done) I'd prefer to
> read values from a config file (or the equivalent).

The modern way to do this is to add a hd44780-gpio device node to the
device tree, cfr. spi-over-gpio:

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-gpio.txt

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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