[PATCH] gpio: mxs: implement get_direction callback

[Janusz Użycki]

W dniu 2014-11-17 o 11:05, Richard Genoud pisze:
> 2014-11-17 10:59 GMT+01:00 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
>> Hello Richard,
>>
>>>>>>> So finally the prototypes would be:
>>>>>>> int mctrl_gpio_request_irqs(struct mctrl_gpios*, struct
>>>>>>> uart_port*, irqhandler_t);
>>>>>>> void mctrl_gpio_free_irqs(struct mctrl_gpios*);
>>>>> I think:
>>>>>
>>>>>          struct mctrl_gpios {
>>>>>                  struct uart_port *port;
>>>>>                  struct {
>>>>>                          gpio_desc *gpio;
>>>>>                          unsigned int irq;
>>> I think it's just "int irq;" there
>> irqs are unsigned. Some functions returning an irq use "int", but
>> depending on who you ask this only for error reporting or a relict.
>> Use 0 for invalid/unused in mctrl_gpio*.
>>
>>>> Yes. I tried to assign irq value in mctrl_gpio_init() only.
>>>> There was another issue if CONFIG_GPIOLIB is not defined but it looks mctrl_
>>>> disable/enable_ms()
>>>> and mctrl_ irq handler solve the problem.
>>>>
>>>>>    Not sure there is a corresponding request_irq variant for that.
>>>>
>>>> What would you propose?
>>> In atmel_request_gpio_irq(), the function irq_set_status_flags(irq,
>>> IRQ_NOAUTOEN); is used before request_irq to prevent the irq from
>>> being enabled when requested.
>> I'm not sure this is allowed. How do you handle request_irq failing? (I
>> just checked: you don't.) Consider another thread just doing
>> request_irq($yourirq, ...) between
>>
>>          irq_set_status_flags(irq[i], IRQ_NOAUTOEN);
>>
>> and
>>
>>          err = request_irq(irq[i], ...
> well, in this case, request_irq() will fail and all the previously
> requested irqs will be freed:
>      /*
>       * If something went wrong, rollback.
>       */
>      while (err && (--i >= 0))
>          if (irq[i] >= 0)
>              free_irq(irq[i], port);

I finally returned "unsigned int irq" into "int irq" because 
gpiod_to_irq() returns int also.
It makes code longer, no more.
I've changed (irq >= 0) to (irq > 0) only.

best regards
Janusz