[PATCH v4 RESEND 6/7] gpio/omap: fix incorrect update to context.irqenable1

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Wed Mar 21 10:06:30 EDT 2012


"DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" <tarun.kanti at ti.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM, DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
> <tarun.kanti at ti.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
>>> Tarun Kanti DebBarma <tarun.kanti at ti.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> In _enable_gpio_irqbank() when bank->regs->set_irqenable is valid,
>>>> gpio_mask can be directly set by writing to set_irqenable register
>>>> without overwriting current value. In order to ensure the same is
>>>> stored in context.irqenable1, we must read from regs->irqenable
>>>> instead of overwriting it with gpio_mask.
>>>
>>>> The overwriting makes sense only in the second case where irqenable
>>>> is explicitly read and updated with new gpio_mask before writing it
>>>> back. However, for consistency reading regs->irqenable into the
>>>> bank->context.irqenable1 takes care of both the scenarios.
>>>
>>> ...except that the code doesn't do this anymore.
>> Yes.
>>>
>>> I like the newer version (I hope so, since I suggested it :), but please
>>> update the changlog to describe what the code is actually doing.
>> Sure.
> I have updated the change log here:
> git://gitorious.org/~tarunkanti/omap-sw-develoment/tarunkantis-linux-omap-dev
> for_3.4/gpio_more_fixes

Please also post and updated version of the patch for review.

Kevin



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