linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ACPI / gpio: Add hogging support

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:38:24 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ACPI / gpio: Add hogging support

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> GPIO hogging means that the GPIO controller can "hog" and configure certain
> GPIOs without need for a driver or userspace to do that. This is useful in
> open-connected boards where BIOS cannot possibly know beforehand which
> devices will be connected to the board.
>
> This adds GPIO hogging mechanism to ACPI analogous to Device Tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>

Patch applied.

Fixed the small typo in the process. No need to resend.

Yours,
Linus Walleij