Re: [PATCH 4/5] gpio: remove gpiod_lock/unlock_as_irq()

Linus Walleij
2014-07-23T15:45:28Z

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:

> gpio_lock/unlock_as_irq() are working with (chip, offset) arguments and
> are thus not using the old integer namespace. Therefore, there is no
> reason to have gpiod variants of these functions working with
> descriptors, especially since the (chip, offset) tuple is more suitable
> to the users of these functions (GPIO drivers, whereas GPIO descriptors
> are targeted at GPIO consumers).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>

Argh the mess is likely my fault for not having wrapped my head around
descriptors properly at the time.

Patch applied, naturally.

Yours,
Linus Walleij