[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ASoC: s3c64xx/smartq: use dynamic registration

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:41:23PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Not so sure about that - what about requesting GPIOs for a bidirectional
> > bus?  Thinking about SPI bitbanging here.

> Wouldn't you want to use a different means that the gpiod_array_*() API
> to handle those cases? gpiod_array_*() is probably most useful to handle
> bulk operations on a set of GPIOs that do essentially the same thing. If
> you get and then need to index into that array to handle them all
> differently then you don't gain very much.

For set and get, sure - but it's still useful to be able to do bulk
requests for GPIOs especially since that's the only bit of the interface
that requires error handling.
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