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

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Message-ID: <411ac5e107cd2a6c628d1fb46e7d284c8f594768.camel@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:48:17 +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 All,

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...)

I have somewhere near 62 patches waiting to be sent =) They're pretty
small but I'd appreciate thorough review as they're mostly untested...
Do you mind receiving them all in one go? Or do you think I should send
the series in smaller chuncks?

> 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
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij