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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: add gpio_set_direction()
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:24:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002270824.14889.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100227102609.GA2994@sirena.org.uk>

On Saturday 27 February 2010, Mark Brown wrote:
> >  "none" ... since it's not even a GPIO, why would it show
> >       up through the GPIO subsystem???
> 
> I suspect this is intended to be tristated, which might be useful to add.

That's what "input" means, as a rule:  no output driver
is active with a GPIO configured as "iput".  "Tristate"
is an option that's relevant for outputs ... low, high,
or not-driven.

- Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27 16:24 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 [this message]
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
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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