[PATCH] regulator: core: Still free GPIOs using gpio_free()

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jul 1 05:06:22 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
> 
> Even though we mostly use GPIO descriptors internally we still use
> gpio_request_one() to request so we need to pair that with gpio_free() to
> release the GPIO.
> 
> Reported-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>

This doesn't explain the reason...  I see the current GPIO code doing this:

void gpio_free(unsigned gpio)
{
        gpiod_free(gpio_to_desc(gpio));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_free);

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