linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: fix typo and unclear legacy API section

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZzBxJMJknDL+bt8bGBSBCOO4mT3cbU+RDWL2W5Fpp5Zw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:49:25 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Cc:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: fix typo and unclear legacy API section

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:26 AM Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com> wrote:

> The "Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem" of the documentation
> was unclear at best, and even included a sentence that seems to say the
> opposite of what it should say about the lifetime of the return value of
> the conversion functions.
>
> Try to clarify things a bit and hopefully make that section more
> readable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>

Patch applied!

Thanks for fixing this up and thanks to Andy for coordinating with
the fine folks over at StackOverflow. I added the BugLink and
Andy's Reported-by.

Yours,
Linus Walleij