[PATCH] serial: mxs-auart: Compare the return value of gpiod_get_direction against GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN

Nikola Z. Ivanov zlatistiv at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 03:31:52 PDT 2026



On 4/17/26 11:22 AM, Frank Li wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 11:32:54AM +0300, Nikola Z. Ivanov wrote:
>
> subjust suggest change to
>
> Replace hardcode 1 with predefined macro GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN
>
> Frank
Hello,

I suppose you are suggesting a subject change, in that case I will send v2.
Also I can see that automated code review notes that this will not build
on greg's tty tree as 7.0 is not yet merged into it. I will wait for 
that to happen
before mailing v2.

BR,
Nikola
>
>> The GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_* definitions have just recently been exposed to
>> gpio consumers.h by breaking them out in a separate defs.h file.
>>
>> Use this to validate the gpio direction instead of the hard-coded literal.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikola Z. Ivanov <zlatistiv at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
>> index cc65c9fb6446..6c6df4d5c21f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
>> @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ static int mxs_auart_init_gpios(struct mxs_auart_port *s, struct device *dev)
>>
>>   	for (i = 0; i < UART_GPIO_MAX; i++) {
>>   		gpiod = mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(s->gpios, i);
>> -		if (gpiod && (gpiod_get_direction(gpiod) == 1))
>> +		if (gpiod && (gpiod_get_direction(gpiod) == GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN))
>>   			s->gpio_irq[i] = gpiod_to_irq(gpiod);
>>   		else
>>   			s->gpio_irq[i] = -EINVAL;
>> --
>> 2.53.0
>>




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