linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: GPIO direction support for muxing

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Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:12:39 +0530
From:	Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@...aro.org>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rajendra.nayak@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Igor Grinberg <grinberg@...pulab.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: GPIO direction support for muxing

On 21 November 2011 18:29, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>
> When requesting a single GPIO pin to be muxed in, some controllers
> will need to poke a different value into the control register
> depending on whether the pin will be used for GPIO output or GPIO
> input. So create pinmux counterparts to gpio_direction_[input|output]
> in the pinctrl framework.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>

One minor comment below.

>

[...]

> diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
> index 214b961..4a946ba 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt

[...]

> +Alternatively to using these special functions, it is fully allowed to use
> +named functions for each GPIO pin, the pinmux_request_gpio() will attempt to
> +obtain the function "gpioN" where "N" is the global GPIO pin number if no
> +special GPIO-handler is registered.
> +
> +The public functions to enable a certain GPIO pin

Is the above sentence incomplete?

Thanks,
Thomas.
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