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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Stijn Devriendt <highguy@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
	linus.walleij@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, w.sang@pengutronix.de,
	jbe@pengutronix.de, plagnioj@jcrosoft.com, daniel-gl@gmx.net,
	rmallon@gmail.com, sr@denx.de, wg@grandegger.com,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6 v14] gpio: Add block gpio to several gpio drivers
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:17:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124121726.GQ4955@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOY=C6H5xETt5UNXUfRkGW9q+bj0y2R3sXNvW87XXvQcYoL_-g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Stijn Devriendt wrote:

> As a fictive example, consider the i2c-bitbang driver, which you could optimize
> by using block-gpio with sda/scl in a single block. By offering the
> block-gpio API
> even when you cannot set all bits at once, you could cause timing issues.
> You might be toggling the clock line before pushing out data, for example.

> The same holds below, for a driver that has separate hi/lo bits.

If there's a strict ordering requirement on updates then I would expect
a user to explictly code that in hardware otherwise there may be
hardware level issues with unpredictable results; besides in general it
seems silly to force users to open code both versions if they don't want
to rely on this API.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22 12:06 [PATCH 0/6 v14] gpio: Add block GPIO Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/6 v14] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 13:19   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 13:58     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:30       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-31 20:56         ` Linus Walleij
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 2/6 v14] gpio: Add sysfs support to block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 3/6 v14] gpio: Add userland device interface to block GPIO Roland Stigge
2013-01-23  1:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2013-01-23 18:47     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-24  9:13   ` Alexander Stein
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 4/6 v14] gpiolib: Fix default attributes for class Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 5/6 v14] gpio: Add device tree support to block GPIO API Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 13:07   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 14:29     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:39       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-28 12:29         ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-22 12:06 ` [PATCH 6/6 v14] gpio: Add block gpio to several gpio drivers Roland Stigge
2013-01-24 12:02   ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-24 12:17     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-01-24 12:19     ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-27 12:18       ` Stijn Devriendt
2013-01-27 13:48         ` Roland Stigge
2013-01-28 11:27           ` Stijn Devriendt

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