linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "drivers/misc/ti-st: remove gpio handling"

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:14:12 +0200
From:	Luciano Coelho <coelho@...com>
To:	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
CC:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<balbi@...com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "drivers/misc/ti-st: remove gpio handling"

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 10:05 +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 10:04 AM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > On 01/22/2013 10:31 PM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> >> I thought about checking exactly what we need as delays and whether we
> >> really need to do all that toggling.  At least in some boards, the
> >> toggles are not needed, but I don't know for sure whether it works in
> >> all different variations of the chip, so I kept them to be safe.  Also,
> >> I tried to deviate as little as possible from a plain revert, since I'd
> >> like to get this into stable as well.
> > 
> > I can not find the documentation for the WiLink, but I would guess that it
> > needs some delay between high->low(off)->(wait)->high(on)->(power-on-time)->up

Yes, we probably need some kind of delay.  I'm not sure about the
low-high-low kind of thing though.  I'll try to figure it out.


> But mdelay() looks a bit overkill IMHO.

Yes, most likely we can use usleep or something.  I'll look into that as
part of my clean-up series. ;)

--
Luca.

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