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Message-ID: <5194FD48.3010106@free-electrons.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:37:44 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: mxs: Use set and clear capabilities of the gpio
controller
Hi Linus,
Le 02/05/2013 04:44, Shawn Guo a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> The current driver doesn't use the set and clear registers found on the
>> mxs gpio controller.
>>
>> This leads the generic gpio controller to be using some internal value
>> to avoid looking up the value stored in the registers, making it behave
>> pretty much like a cache.
>>
>> This raises some coherency problem when a gpio is not modified by the
>> gpio controller, while it can easily be fixed by using the set and clear
>> registers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
>
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
Would you consider merging this patch?
Thanks,
Maxime
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