From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Daney Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio MIPS/OCTEON: Add a driver for OCTEON's on-chip GPIO pins. Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:27:09 -0700 Message-ID: <51C3497D.2050107@gmail.com> References: <1371251915-18271-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> <51C34584.8070301@gmail.com> <1371752324.2146.25.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1371752324.2146.25.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Cc: Linus Walleij , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , David Daney List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 06/20/2013 11:18 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 11:10 -0700, David Daney wrote: >> Sorry for not responding earlier, but my e-mail system seems to have >> malfunctioned with respect to this message... > [] >> On 06/17/2013 01:51 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >>>> +static int octeon_gpio_get(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset) >>>> +{ >>>> + struct octeon_gpio *gpio = container_of(chip, struct octeon_gpio, chip); >>>> + u64 read_bits = cvmx_read_csr(gpio->register_base + RX_DAT); >>>> + >>>> + return ((1ull << offset) & read_bits) != 0; >>> >>> A common idiom we use for this is: >>> >>> return !!(read_bits & (1ull << offset)); >> >> I hate that idiom, but if its use is a condition of accepting the patch, >> I will change it. > > Or use an even more common idiom and change the > function to return bool and let the compiler do it. > ... but it is part of the gpiochip system interface, so it would have to be done kernel wide. Really I don't like the idea of GPIO lines having Boolean truth values associated with them. Some represent things that are active-high and others active-low. Converting the pin voltage being above or below a given threshold to something other than zero or one would in my opinion be confusing. David Daney