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Message-ID: <20071115095123.3f595b62@dhcp-255-175.norway.atmel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:51:23 +0100
From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:33 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> > > - gpio_direction_input()/gpio_direction_output() implicitly
> > > request the pins, if they weren't already requested.
> >
> > Eek, that's completely wrong. Allowing to access a resource _before_
> > it is assigned and then doing the assignment implicit is a really bad
> > idea.
>
> This is an artifact of making the GPIO interface easy to adopt,
> by letting all the initial adopters wrap "legacy" SOC-specific
> GPIO interfaces instead of creating a bunch of new platform code.
It's still ok for platforms that do not use gpiolib to provide NOP
gpio_request() and gpio_free() functions if they don't care about
tracking gpio usage. That doesn't mean we shouldn't require all drivers
to use those calls -- if they are implemented as empty inlines, it
won't cost anything to call them.
I'd rather speed up the gpio_direction_* functions a bit by removing
the implicit gpio_request() since they may be called a lot more
frequently and, as you pointed out, possibly from atomic context.
HÃ¥vard
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