linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: remove gpio_ensure

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:21:12 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Cc:	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: remove gpio_ensure_requested()

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com> wrote:

> gpio_ensure_requested() has been introduced in Feb. 2008 by commit
> d2876d08d86f2 to force users of the GPIO API to explicitly request GPIOs
> before using them.
>
> Hopefully by now all GPIOs are correctly requested and this extra check
> can be omitted ; in any case the GPIO maintainers won't feel bad if
> machines start failing after 6 years of warnings.
>
> This patch removes that function from the dark ages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>

Hm you took the opportunity to also refactor the debounce ops
to static inlines, I see why though so patch applied!

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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