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

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Wed May 16 10:07:18 EDT 2012


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:33:26PM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > I'm not fixing a gpio-mxs problem but a gpio-generic one.  Can you help
> >
> Yes, I know. And that's exaclty why you should make sure that you
> don't break other platforms by fixing yours!
> 
> > me understand what the new problems could possibly be introduced for
> > other gpio-generic users by the changes? 
> > 
> Another platform using might be working just _because_ of the "broken"
> behaviour. By fixing that brokenness for your driver you may break
> that other platform.
> 
Can you point me any such platform?

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Regards,
Shawn




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