linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: add gpio_request/free

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Date:	Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:51:25 +1000
From:	Ben Nizette <bn@...sdigital.com>
To:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: add gpio_request/free_irq

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:51 -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> Add support functions to gpiolib to request/free gpio irqs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Can this really not just be open-coded?  I see other subsystems wrap up
request_irq but that tends to be in cases where there's a lot of
boilerplate to go through or it closes a race or something.  Maybe
there's just insufficient changelogging - why do we want this?

Thanks,
	--Ben.



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