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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] cs5535-gpio: Use set_direction
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:04:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002262304.49768.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6787cce8528c344c496724509762b2a11dea4bfb.1267225701.git.gardner.ben@gmail.com>

On Friday 26 February 2010, Ben Gardner wrote:
> The CS5535 GPIO has independant controls for input and output enable.

Unusual, but not causing any conceptual problem.


> Use the set_direction method instead of direction_input and direction_output
> to enable use of the bidirectional mode.

Any reason you aren't making the standard behavior be:

	input ... input enabled
	output ... both enabled

That would make this driver behave like most other GPIO hardware, which
would help you avoid subtle problems.

Would there be any technical downside to that approach?



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 23:26 [PATCH 0/3] gpio: add gpio_set_direction Ben Gardner
2010-02-26 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: add gpio_set_direction() Ben Gardner
2010-02-26 23:39   ` Andres Salomon
2010-02-27  5:11     ` Ben Gardner
2010-02-27  7:02   ` David Brownell
2010-02-27 10:26     ` Mark Brown
2010-02-27 16:24       ` David Brownell
2010-02-27 17:20         ` Mark Brown
2010-02-27 17:51           ` David Brownell
2010-03-01 10:35             ` Mark Brown
2010-02-27 18:36     ` Ben Gardner
2010-02-27 19:23       ` David Brownell
2010-02-27 18:36   ` [PATCH] cs5535-gpio: change input/output enable to match gpiolib expectations Ben Gardner
2010-02-27 18:40     ` Ben Gardner
2010-02-27 18:56   ` [PATCH v2] " Ben Gardner
2010-02-27 19:18     ` David Brownell
2010-02-26 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] cs5535-gpio: Use set_direction Ben Gardner
2010-02-27  7:04   ` David Brownell [this message]
2010-02-27 18:18     ` Ben Gardner
2010-02-26 23:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] OLPC: ALSA: fix cs5535audio's MIC GPIO to enable input Ben Gardner
2010-02-27  7:14   ` David Brownell

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