[PATCH 1/2] gpio: add pin biasing and drive mode to gpiolib

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Apr 20 08:32:35 EDT 2011


2011/4/19 Kyungmin Park <kmpark at infradead.org>:

> One more consideration, not mentioned previous time, is that pin
> configuration for power down mode.
> Samsung SoCs has retention GPIO configurations at sleep (suspend)
> mode. and restore it at resume time.
> it's need to reduce power and proper operation after suspend.

Isn't this supposed to be handled by runtime_pm hooks inside
your GPIO driver rather than by someone else talking to
the GPIO driver trying to spool/unspool the state from the
outside in some other place?

Or am I getting things backwards now...?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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