[PATCH 1/6] pinctrl: samsung: Decouple direction setting from pinctrl

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com> wrote:

> This patch makes the pinctrl-samsung driver configure GPIO direction on
> its own, without using the pinctrl_gpio_direction_*() "helpers". The
> rationale behind this change is as follows:
>  - pinctrl-samsung does not need translation from GPIO namespace to
>    pinctrl namespace to handle GPIO operations - GPIO chip and offset
>    therein are enough to calculate necessary offsets and bit masks in
>    constant time,
>  - the pinctrl_gpio_direction_*() functions do not do anything useful
>    other than translating the pin into pinctrl namespace and calling the
>    .gpio_set_direction() from pinmux_ops of the controller,
>  - the undesirable side effect of using those helpers is losing the
>    ability to change GPIO direction in atomic context, because they
>    explicitly use a mutex for synchronization,
>
> Results of this patch are:
>  - fixed warnings about scheduling while atomic in code that needs to
>    set GPIO direction in atomic context (e.g. interrupt handler),
>  - reduced overhead of bitbanging drivers that use gpio_direction_*(),
>    e.g. i2c-gpio.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>

Well the cross-call function is actually mostly for the case when
the pinctrl and GPIO drivers are in different files, or you combine
two IP blocks arbitrarily. It's a bit messy anyway.

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij