linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 14/15] gpio: Add definition for GPIO direction

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Message-ID: <c06725c3dd34118a324907137758d8b85b3d4043.camel@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:57:00 +0000
From:   "Vaittinen, Matti" <Matti.Vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 14/15] gpio: Add definition for GPIO direction

Hello Linus,

On Sun, 2019-11-03 at 23:30 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Matti!
> 
> Good initiative (and I will see a ton of janitorial patches as a
> result of this...)

Yep. I think I might pull this change out of the RFC and send it
separately. I can also do some conversions for existing drivers - but I
won't probably be able to do all of the drivers. I see no way of doing
any search and replace scripting here - this conversion is going to be
manual work :/

> 
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 12:50 PM Matti Vaittinen
> <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com> wrote:
> 
> > At least for me it is difficult to remember the meaning of GPIO
> > direction values. Define GPIO_IN and GPIO_OUT so that occasional
> > GPIO contributors would not need to always check the meaning of
> > hard coded values 1 and 0.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
> (...)
> > +#define GPIO_IN                1
> > +#define GPIO_OUT       0
> 
> Please spell it out or people will be confused:
> 
> GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN
> GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_OUT

Right. Besides the 0Day test suite did already spot a few redefinition
problems when some drivers do define GPIO_IN and/or GPIO_OUT... So I'll
change the defines to what you suggest here.

Br,
	Matti Vaittinen