[PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: add get_direction function

[Timur Tabi]

Stephen Boyd wrote:

>> > The idea is to notify drivers with an error code when they make a
>> > mistake. Perhaps the device tree or the ACPI table has an error?

> In general the kernel isn't a firmware validator. At least that's
> the way I view it. Others may have different opinions here.

I would be okay with wrapping that check around #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_GPIO.

>> > I could add that, but I still think returning an error code is
>> > appropriate.  On the TLMM, we know for sure that the pin must be set
>> > to function 0 in order for the read/write routines to operate
>> > correctly.

> On ACPI we could make the gpio_get() path fail if the pin isn't
> in GPIO mode?

Did you mean the gpio_chip.request callback?  Currently that points to 
gpiochip_generic_request in pinctrl-msm.c.

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