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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Joonyoung Shim <dofmind@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] twl4030-gpio: Fix getting the value of the TWL4030 GPIO  output pin
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:16:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902111816.41569.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e1455be0902090502l554ca462m9c096e359a5b29c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 09 February 2009, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> but, it doesn't return actual value of the pin if twl4030 GPIO pin is output.

So it would seem that these GPIOs don't support
bidirectional usage.  Documentation/gpio.txt includes:

>>>		However, note that not all platforms can
>>>	read the value of output pins; those that can't
>>>	should always return zero.  

Which is exactly what's happening here, it seems...




> For example, the GPIO13 pin of twl4030 is configured as an output
> using gpio_direction_output() and assigns the GPIO's value to 1
> using gpio_set_value_cansleep(), the result of "# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio"
> reports to me as follows.
> 
> GPIOs 192-209, platform/twl4030_gpio, twl4030, can sleep:
>  gpio-205 (keyled              ) out lo
> 
> but it should have reported "hi" instead of "lo".
> 


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      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-07  6:13 [PATCH] twl4030-gpio: Fix getting the value of the TWL4030 GPIO output pin Joonyoung Shim
2009-02-07  8:00 ` David Brownell
2009-02-09 13:02   ` Joonyoung Shim
2009-02-12  2:16     ` David Brownell [this message]

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