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Message-ID: <171981953255.7947.3008231579681723957.b4-ty@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 09:39:07 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
brgl@...ev.pl,
linus.walleij@...aro.org,
Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpiolib: cdev: directionless line reconfiguration
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:29:21 +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> The behaviour of request reconfiguration without a direction flag set is
> ill-defined and badly behaved, for both uAPI v1 and v2. I'll will refer
> to such a configuration as 'directionless' here. That refers to the
> configuration requested, not the actual state of the line.
>
> The configuration validation used during reconfiguration is borrowed from
> the line request operation, where, to verify the intent of the user, the
> direction must be set to in order to effect a change to the electrical
> configuration of a line. But that validation does not allow for the
> directionless case, making it possible to clear flags set previously
> without specifying the line direction.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[3/4] Documentation: gpio: Reconfiguration with unset direction (uAPI v1)
commit: e48fe75afa539d110753f7420aa398ef89f8e383
[4/4] Documentation: gpio: Reconfiguration with unset direction (uAPI v2)
commit: 6a9c15083b1662a4b7b36e787272deb696d72c24
Best regards,
--
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
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