Re: [PATCH] of/gpio: Define OF_GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN flag for Open Drain outputs.

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 02/10/2014 08:31 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:05 AM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>>
>> When we have a GPIO pin connected to an open-drain network, we want a
>> standard way of specifying this in the device tree.  So we choose bit
>> 1 of the flag field to indicate open drain.
>>
>> A typical use case would be something like:
>>
>>          enum of_gpio_flags f;
>>          .
>>          .
>>          .
>>          reset_gpio = of_get_named_gpio_flags(node, "reset", 0, &f);
>>          .
>>          .
>>          .
>>          ret = gpio_request_one(reset_gpio,
>>                  (f & OF_GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN) ? GPIOF_OPEN_DRAIN : 0,
>>                   "reset");
>>          .
>>          .
>>          .
>>          gpio_direction_output(reset_gpio, 1);
>>          gpio_set_value(reset_gpio, 0);
>>          msleep(20);
>>          gpio_set_value(reset_gpio, 1);
>
> This is also useful for gpiod_get(). However, while you are at it,
> could you also add a flag for the OF_GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE property? My joy
> would be complete if you could also take the time to update
> of_find_gpio() to pass these new flags back to the caller as it
> already does for OF_GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW.
>
> Then you could even switch your use-case to the gpiod interface and
> not bother with passing these flags by yourself anymore. Just sayin'.
> ;)

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will send a revised patch set for your 
consideration.

David Daney