[PATCH v3 2/2] Input: ads7846: use gpio_request_one to configure pendown_gpio
Poddar, Sourav
sourav.poddar at ti.com
Sat Feb 5 01:59:58 EST 2011
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Igor Grinberg <grinberg at compulab.co.il> wrote:
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> On 02/04/11 17:11, Poddar, Sourav wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Igor Grinberg <grinberg at compulab.co.il> wrote:
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>>> On 02/04/11 16:16, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:08:47PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 07:02:50PM +0530, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:19:53AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:54:05AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
>>>>>>>>> The ads7846 driver requests a gpio but does not currently
>>>>>>>>> configure it explicitly as an input. Use gpio_request_one
>>>>>>>>> to request and configure it at one shot.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar at ti.com>
>>>>>>>>> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor at mail.ru>
>>>>>>>> Will apply this one, the other one is a bit messy IMO, will have to
>>>>>>>> think about it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Something like below should do I think.
>>>>>> Patch looks good but it applies only on top of previous patch:
>>>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/529941/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why to have two patches for this fix?
>>>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg45167.html
>>>> My point here is:
>>>> 1. The first patch only replaces gpio_request with gpio_request_one
>>>> 2. Rest of the things are handled in 2nd patch posted by dmitry
>>>>
>>>> What is harm in merging both the patches? I don't think it affects
>>>> readability.
>>> Because the changes introduced by the patches are from different nature.
>>> As stated in the link above, one is a functional change (gpio setup change)
>>> and second is fixing the imbalance in request - free calls.
>>> The impact is not readability, but bad bisect-ability.
>> Dmitry's patch fixes both the problems(request/free and direction)
>> in a single patch itself.Now there is no need of merging any patches.
>> Just that Dmitry's patch need to be rebased over the top of HEAD. (Currently,
>> its on top of my patch series).
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> Well, here you have missed the point of direction:
> ...
>
> + err = gpio_request_one(pdata->gpio_pendown, GPIOF_DIR_IN,
> + "ads7846_pendown");
>
> ...
>
> - err = gpio_request_one(pdata->gpio_pendown, GPIOF_DIR_IN,
> - "ads7846_pendown");
> ...
>
>
> It does not deal with direction, but only with request - free balance.
> The gpio direction is fixed by your patch.
>
gpio_request_one is a different API which calls gpio_direction_input
for configuring the direction.
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