Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: bcm2835: Make pin freeing behavior configurable

[Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>]

Am 19.04.24 um 22:40 schrieb Stefan Wahren:
> Until now after a bcm2835 pin was freed its pinmux was set to GPIO_IN.
> So in case it was configured as GPIO_OUT before the configured output
> level also get lost. As long as GPIO sysfs was used this wasn't
> actually a problem because the pins and their possible output level
> were kept by sysfs.
>
> Since more and more Raspberry Pi users start using libgpiod they are
> confused about this behavior. So make the pin freeing behavior of
> GPIO_OUT configurable via module parameter. In case
> pinctrl-bcm2835.strict_gpiod is set to 0, the output level is kept.
>
> This patch based on the downstream work of Phil Elwell.
>
> Link: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/6117
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>
> ---
>   drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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