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From: Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
To: Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists@towertech.it>
Cc: "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, dilinger@queued.net,
	dsaxena@laptop.org, "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD Geode CS5535/5536 GPIO driver
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:47:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49989B96.7010604@cosmicpenguin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206101618.7102e46b@i1501.lan.towertech.it>

Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:12:20 -0800
> David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>> Unless this hardware misbehaves when both output and input
>> modes are enabled (e.g. in the window between those two calls),
>> I'd suggest just not clearing INPUT_ENABLE.  It's legit to
>> ask for the *actual* value of an output line, e.g. for when
>> it uses open drain mode.  (And didn't this hardware have an
>> option for open drain GPIO signaling?)
> 
>  seems reasonable,
>  I'll let the Geode people decide what to do here... 

Sorry, I'm just getting around to answering this. I don't recall any 
situation where the hardware would mis-behave, but you never know with 
this bit of silicon.

I say leave them both on, and revisit it if you get flamed.

Jordan





  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 15:10 [PATCH] AMD Geode CS5535/5536 GPIO driver Alessandro Zummo
2009-02-06  0:12 ` David Brownell
2009-02-06  9:16   ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-02-15 22:47     ` Jordan Crouse [this message]
2009-02-14 20:27 ` Andres Salomon
2009-02-14 22:02   ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-02-14 22:38     ` Andres Salomon
2009-02-14 22:54       ` Alessandro Zummo

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