[PATCH 0/3] [v11] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Jan 2 01:16:35 PST 2018


On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> Patch 1 is still needed. Without that patch, we'll be poking each
> GPIO to figure out the direction at boot without checking any
> valid mask or calling the request APIs.

Aha, I just thought you'd augment that code to take valid GPIOs
into account.

Anyways, I left the patch in, so no worries.

> I don't see the part in
> debugfs where we show the direction of a GPIO if it hasn't been
> requested. Don't we skip over the unrequested GPIOs because of
> this code in gpiolib_dbg_show()?
>
>         if (!test_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &gdesc->flags)) {
>                 ...
>                 continue;
>         }

Yes you're right. This is more for lsgpio and the chardev side
of things for inspecting lines really.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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