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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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