[PATCH] gpio/at91: free GPIO after configuring as input

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Apr 11 08:30:33 PDT 2014


On Apr 11, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Alexander Stein <alexanders83 at web.de> wrote:

> 
> If the GPIO stays requested a device driver can't request it again.
> e.g. Without this patch the ads7846 driver returns the following error:
> ads7846 spi32766.3: failed to request/setup pendown GPIO15: -16
> ads7846: probe of spi32766.3 failed with error -16
> 
> /sys/kernel/debug/gpio shows this:
> GPIOs 0-31, platform/fffff200.gpio, fffff200.gpio:
> [/ahb/apb/pinctrl at fffff200/gpio at fffff200] GPIOfffff200.gpio15: [gpio] set
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexanders83 at web.de>
> ---
> I'm aware that it makes sense this GPIO is/stays requested, but either the
> pinctl or device driver have to be adjusted as both can't request this GPIO.
> I think the latter shouldn't change.
> 
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c
> index d990e33..63176f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c
> @@ -1493,6 +1493,8 @@ static int at91_gpio_irq_domain_xlate(struct irq_domain *d,
> 	if (ret)
> 		return ret;
> 
> +	gpio_free(pin);
> +

NACK it the whole key point the gpio use as a IRQ so the irq generic code request it
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.2
> 




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