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From: Denis Kuzmenko <linux@solonet.org.ua>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: add flags to export GPIOs when requesting
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:19:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC371FE.5010402@solonet.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1740805F1A@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>

Hi Stephen,

On 11/16/2011 01:32 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Denis Kuzmenko wrote at Tuesday, November 15, 2011 4:05 PM:
>> Hi Wolfram,
>> On 11/16/2011 12:44 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>
>> #define GPIOF_EXPORT			(1 << 2)
>> #define GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_CHANGEABLE	(3 << 2)
> 
> Then you won't have a single flag to check if the dir is changeable.
> 
> Personally, I'd go for the two single-bit flags, and force boards to OR
> them together if they want the GPIO exported and with a changeable
> direction; just get rid of the two _DIR_ flags. That said, Wolfram's
> patch seems to follow the conventions already in the file.

Your truth.

> Dong Aisheng posted patch "gpio: introduce gpio_export_array to ease
> export for gpio arrays". Which should we pick; it doesn't seem like we
> need both mechanisms.

I vote for GPIOF_* variant (this one) since it can deal with different
settings for each gpio pin in array.

-- 
Best regards, Denis Kuzmenko.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 22:44 [PATCH] gpio: add flags to export GPIOs when requesting Wolfram Sang
2011-11-15 23:05 ` Denis Kuzmenko
2011-11-15 23:32   ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-16  8:19     ` Denis Kuzmenko [this message]
2011-11-16  9:10       ` Wolfram Sang
2011-11-16 15:57         ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-17  9:10         ` Linus Walleij
2011-11-17  9:31           ` Wolfram Sang

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