From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, avictor.za@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pio: add arch specific gpio_is_valid() function
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:32:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <255134.38265.qm@web180307.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D5B5291-80B9-4576-8DC7-8F33CFF2A803@niasdigital.com>
> gpio_is_valid determines whether a gpio /can/ be attached to acontroller,
Or more simply: whether its numeric prameter is
a valid argument to gpio_request() and friends.
gpio_request determines whether that gpio
> currently /is/
> attached to a controller.
Of course, "controller" is out of sight of folk
just using GPIOs. Otherwise, that's a fair take
on one set of gpio_request() error reports.
Part of the confusion seems
> to come at least
> in part from the overlooking of facility for dynamically added gpio numbers.
Maybe, but I think most of it came from folk who
expected "valid" to mean (your terminology) the
GPIO number is now connected to a controller.
(Otherwise $SUBJECT would be meaningless since
there'd be no arch-specific issue.
>
> Fix the documentation to clarify these points.
Patch is forthcoming.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 16:29 [PATCH 0/2] mmc: atmel-mci: introduce MCI2 support on at91 Nicolas Ferre
2009-09-17 16:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] atmel-mci: change use of dma slave interface Nicolas Ferre
2009-09-29 19:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-30 13:33 ` Nicolas Ferre
2009-09-30 13:55 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2009-10-23 16:34 ` [PATCH 0/2 v2]mmc: atmel-mci: introduce MCI2 support on at91 Nicolas Ferre
2009-10-23 16:34 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] atmel-mci: change use of dma slave interface Nicolas Ferre
2009-10-23 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] mmc: atmel-mci: New MCI2 module support in atmel-mci driver Nicolas Ferre
2009-11-02 17:18 ` Nicolas Ferre
2009-11-18 13:33 ` Nicolas Ferre
2009-10-23 16:34 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] at91/atmel-mci: inclusion of sd/mmc driver in at91sam9g45 chip and board Nicolas Ferre
2009-10-26 8:15 ` Yegor Yefremov
2009-11-02 17:14 ` Nicolas Ferre
2009-10-27 19:43 ` Andrew Victor
2009-10-28 0:35 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2009-10-28 0:53 ` Thiago A. Corrêa
2009-10-28 1:31 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2009-10-28 19:53 ` Andrew Victor
2009-10-28 20:50 ` Ben Nizette
2009-11-02 17:11 ` Nicolas Ferre
2009-11-02 22:10 ` Ben Nizette
2009-11-02 22:14 ` Ben Nizette
2009-11-03 2:30 ` Ryan Mallon
2009-11-03 2:55 ` Ben Nizette
2009-11-07 11:20 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2010-08-23 15:01 ` [PATCH] pio: add arch specific gpio_is_valid() function Nicolas Ferre
2010-08-23 16:36 ` David Brownell
2010-08-24 8:19 ` Nicolas Ferre
2010-09-06 14:21 ` [PATCH v2] AT91: pio: add " Nicolas Ferre
2010-09-07 1:51 ` David Brownell
2010-09-03 16:41 ` [PATCH] pio: add arch specific " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-07 2:23 ` David Brownell
2010-09-07 2:44 ` Ryan Mallon
2010-09-07 3:54 ` Eric Miao
2010-09-07 4:07 ` Ryan Mallon
2010-09-07 4:19 ` Eric Miao
2010-09-07 4:26 ` Ryan Mallon
2010-09-07 18:10 ` David Brownell
2010-09-07 19:13 ` avictor.za
2010-09-07 19:30 ` Ryan Mallon
2010-09-07 21:22 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-07 23:44 ` David Brownell
2010-09-08 0:11 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-07 6:33 ` David Brownell
2010-09-07 8:41 ` Ben Nizette
2010-09-07 17:32 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-09-17 16:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmc: atmel-mci: New MCI2 module support in atmel-mci driver Nicolas Ferre
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