Re: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: intel: Implements gpio free function

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:22:40PM +0800, zhuchangchun@cvte.com wrote:
>    On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:20:56PM +0800, zhuchangchun@cvte.com wrote:
>    >    After you unexport GPIO it can go back to any previous mode it
>    was. If
>    >    you need to use it as GPIO then why unexport it in the first
>    place?
>    >    --> because we need use the GPIO for device reset, we want to
>    recover
>    >    the GPIO value after reset done.If we don't unexport it, then
>    reboot
>    >    the
>    >    intel SOC(not power off), the GPIO's value will stay until the
>    GPIO be
>    >    reinit.
>    >    I tested the GPIO signal with oscilloscope, if  power off the SOC,
>    >    then
>    >    power on, the GPIO value can recover its original value. This will
>    >    infruence
>    >    the peripheral device working condition.
> 
>    If I understand correctly you have some peripheral connected to Intel
>    based board and one GPIO is used to reset the peripheral.
> 
>    You say it works fine if you power cycle the board but it does not when
>    you issue 'reboot' command. Did I understood the problem correctly?
> 
>    --> Yes ,  so I add the -> free callback, it fixes the problem.

OK, so you then write 1 to the sysfs to assert reset, right? And in your
patch you change the mode to input effectively deasserting the reset.

Why not simply do following instead of unexport?

  # echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpioXX/value

or even

  # echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpioXX/value
  # echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpioXX/direction

Am I missing something?