[PATCH] gpio: mxs: Use set and clear capabilities of the gpio controller
Maxime Ripard
maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Thu May 16 11:37:44 EDT 2013
Hi Linus,
Le 02/05/2013 04:44, Shawn Guo a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> The current driver doesn't use the set and clear registers found on the
>> mxs gpio controller.
>>
>> This leads the generic gpio controller to be using some internal value
>> to avoid looking up the value stored in the registers, making it behave
>> pretty much like a cache.
>>
>> This raises some coherency problem when a gpio is not modified by the
>> gpio controller, while it can easily be fixed by using the set and clear
>> registers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
>
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
Would you consider merging this patch?
Thanks,
Maxime
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