linux-kernel - Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] bcm47xx: Fix GPIO API return codes

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Message-Id: <200902151427.39196.florian@openwrt.org>
Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:27:36 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	openwrt-devel@...ts.openwrt.org
Cc:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] bcm47xx: Fix GPIO API return codes

Hi Michael,

Le Saturday 14 February 2009 21:27:19 Michael Buesch, vous avez écrit :
> The GPIO API is supposed to return 0 or a negative error code,
> but the SSB GPIO functions return the bitmask of the GPIO register.
> Fix this by ignoring the bitmask and always returning 0. The SSB GPIO
> functions can't fail.

At some point we might want to convert the existing board code to use gpiolib. 
I will try to come up with a patch for this later this afternoon.

Otherwise, your patch looks good.
-- 
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@...nwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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