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Message-ID: <20181021155202.5fe5a49f@archlinux>
Date:   Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:52:02 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:     Phil Reid <preid@...ctromag.com.au>,
        Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@...il.com>,
        Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: iio: ad7816: Switch to the gpio descriptor
 interface

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:40:00 +0200
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> wrote:

> On 10/18/2018 09:28 AM, Phil Reid wrote:
> [...]
> >> +    chip->rdwr_pin = devm_gpiod_get(&spi_dev->dev, "rdwr", GPIOD_IN);
> >> +    if (IS_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin)) {
> >> +        ret = PTR_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin);
> >> +        dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "Failed to request rdwr GPIO: %d\n",
> >> +            ret);
> >>           return ret;
> >>       }
> >> -    gpio_direction_input(chip->rdwr_pin);  
> > 
> > The RD/WR pin is an input to the AD78xx. So this doesn't make sense being
> > GPIOD_IN.  
> 
> One thing at a time. This patch is a straight forward conversion to the GPIO
> descriptor interface. It keeps the existing semantics of the driver as they are.
> 
> Now these semantics are obviously wrong and should be fixed but that should
> be a separate patch from changing the interface.
Agreed.  Useful to raise these issues however, and I've added a note to the
patch to bring this to anyone's attention should they be interesting.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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