[PATCH] gpio/generic: initialize the shadow of direction register

Lothar Waßmann LW at KARO-electronics.de
Wed May 16 08:48:23 EDT 2012


Hi,

Shawn Guo writes:
> On 16 May 2012 15:34, Lothar Waßmann <LW at karo-electronics.de> wrote:
> > You initialize a variable to a specific value that defaulted to zero
> > before.
> >
> The variable defaulted to zero is causing a problem.  I'm fixing that problem.
> 
But you are changing the behaviour of existing software that
apparently did not suffer from this problem. You should make sure that
the fix for your problem is not causing new problems for other users!


Lothar Waßamnn
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