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From: Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:05:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27c8e13a-44bf-18b5-083b-25b87d7b8605@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbz0hyjy5U3-xo8Oi-ojB_H3=DEwuJtmoqJTJQNiAYYaA@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/20/18 5:36 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> What I mean is that $SUBJECT patch might not hurt Qualcomms
> GPIOs (not crash the platform) if and only if it is augmented to not
> try to get the initial direction from lines masked off in .valid_mask
> if .need_valid_mask is true.
> 
> Whether it makes sense semantically is a different debate, but it
> seems possible to reintroduce calling .get_direction() without
> hurting anyone.

That means that all the logic for checking valid_mask needs to be added 
to the chip driver's .get_direction() function.  We can add that logic 
to msm_gpio_get_direction (at one point, I had a patch that did that, 
but it was rejected).

My concern is: what if a driver depends on a .request call being made 
(in order to configure muxes, for example) before touching the hardware?

I wonder if this is something that really should be handled in the 
driver's .probe function.  The driver should collect that information 
and pass it to add_data.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14  7:08 [RFC] gpiolib: Fix gpio_direction_* for single direction GPIOs Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2018-09-14  7:08 ` [PATCH] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2018-09-18 22:40   ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-19  4:04     ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2018-09-19 11:50       ` Timur Tabi
2018-09-19 15:27         ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2018-09-20 12:20           ` Timur Tabi
2018-09-20 14:14             ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2018-09-20 22:43               ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-20 12:25           ` Timur Tabi
2018-09-20  5:23         ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-20 12:35           ` Timur Tabi
2018-09-20 22:36             ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-21  2:05               ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2018-09-21 16:07                 ` Linus Walleij

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