From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
Ryan Chen <ryan_chen@aspeedtech.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] gpio: gpiolib: Generalise state persistence beyond sleep
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:50:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdaar7b_RJ9GneJB84TGRGasSy8PwzJRr81BAooYmF_VAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101040457.1200-2-andrew@aj.id.au>
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:
> General support for state persistence is added to gpiolib with the
> introduction of a new pinconf parameter to propagate the request to
> hardware. The existing persistence support for sleep is adapted to
> include hardware support if the GPIO driver provides it. Persistence
> continues to be enabled by default; in-kernel consumers can opt out, but
> userspace (currently) does not have a choice.
>
> The *_SLEEP_MAY_LOSE_VALUE and *_SLEEP_MAINTAIN_VALUE symbols are
> renamed, dropping the SLEEP prefix to reflect that the concept is no
> longer sleep-specific. I feel that renaming to just *_MAY_LOSE_VALUE
> could initially be misinterpreted, so I've further changed the symbols
> to *_TRANSITORY and *_PERSISTENT to address this.
>
> The sysfs interface is modified only to keep consistency with the
> chardev interface in enforcing persistence for userspace exports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
This does not apply to the Torvalds master HEAD anymore
so please:
- Collect ACKs
- Rebase on Torvalds tree or v4.15-rc1 when it's out
- Resend
The functionality per se looks very nice :) so I want to apply this
ASAP.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-24 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 4:04 [PATCH v3 0/2] gpio: Generalise state persistence Andrew Jeffery
2017-11-01 4:04 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] gpio: gpiolib: Generalise state persistence beyond sleep Andrew Jeffery
2017-11-01 10:09 ` Charles Keepax
2017-11-02 0:15 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-24 9:50 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2017-11-01 4:04 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] gpio: aspeed: Add support for reset tolerance Andrew Jeffery
2017-11-07 5:01 ` Joel Stanley
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