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From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6 v14] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:56:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdaEG3UNntPGy1wnXyKahtDOWXUnqSvr-RG4ak-Ho3+AMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOY=C6GReEpO7ukOS8WiQgdFFAreaYK1YrZ8HQrQ9dGMFObAdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Stijn Devriendt <highguy@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is one of the warts of the GPIO API, if you ask me (and probably
> others too).
> Using a resource without allocating it first is just asking for
> trouble. It's one of those
> things pinctl was designed to solve... I've been thinking about
> spending spare time
> sending out patches converting all implicit requests and then removing
> the implicit
> request, but spare time is limited...

It would be much appreciated. We can make good use of all
help we can get in this area...

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-31 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22 12:06 [PATCH 0/6 v14] gpio: Add block GPIO Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/6 v14] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 13:19   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 13:58     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:30       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-31 20:56         ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 2/6 v14] gpio: Add sysfs support to block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 3/6 v14] gpio: Add userland device interface to block GPIO Roland Stigge
2013-01-23  1:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2013-01-23 18:47     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-24  9:13   ` Alexander Stein
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 4/6 v14] gpiolib: Fix default attributes for class Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 5/6 v14] gpio: Add device tree support to block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 13:07   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 14:29     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:39       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-28 12:29         ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 6/6 v14] gpio: Add block gpio to several gpio drivers Roland Stigge
2013-01-24 12:02   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-24 12:17     ` Mark Brown
2013-01-24 12:19     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 12:18       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 13:48         ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:27           ` Stijn Devriendt

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