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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Ionut Nicu <ioan.nicu.ext@nsn.com>,
	Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>,
	Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c-mux-gpio: test if the gpio can sleep
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:43:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131010194354.GC23512@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52566971.5020700@metafoo.de>

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:46:41AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> > +		if (gpio_cansleep(gpio))
> > +			gpio_set_value_cansleep(gpio, val & (1 << i));
> > +		else
> > +			gpio_set_value(gpio, val & (1 << i));
> 
> The proper way to do this is just always use the _cansleep() version.
> gpio_set_value() only works for chips which do not sleep,
> gpio_set_value_cansleep() works for both those who do sleep and those who do
> not.

To the gpio-list: Has it been considered to have sth. like
gpio_set_value and gpio_set_value_nosleep? I'd think it makes more sense
to have the specific function have the specific name.

Regards,

   Wolfram


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-10  8:39 [PATCH 1/2] i2c-mux-gpio: test if the gpio can sleep Ionut Nicu
2013-10-10  8:46 ` Wolfram Sang
2013-10-10  8:46 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-10-10  8:57   ` Ionut Nicu
2013-10-10 19:43   ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2013-10-10 19:51     ` Lars-Peter Clausen

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