From: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
To: "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Rtp Arnaud Patard" <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc4] gpio/pca953x bugfix: mark as can_sleep
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:14:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f17812d70803092214x2fefe245i741902bc62dee9d2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803091356.20024.david-b@pacbell.net>
OK
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:56 AM, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> The pca953x driver is an I2C driver so gpio_chip->can_sleep should be set.
> This lets upper layers know they should use the gpio_*_cansleep() calls
> to access values, and may not access them from nonsleeping contexts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> Merge before 2.6.25-final, please. This will for example prevent
> leds-gpio from issuing blocking I2C calls from timer/irq contexts.
>
> drivers/gpio/pca953x.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> --- g26.orig/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-03-08 11:17:22.000000000 -0800
> +++ g26/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-03-09 13:51:13.000000000 -0700
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static void pca953x_setup_gpio(struct pc
> gc->direction_output = pca953x_gpio_direction_output;
> gc->get = pca953x_gpio_get_value;
> gc->set = pca953x_gpio_set_value;
> + gc->can_sleep = 1;
>
> gc->base = chip->gpio_start;
> gc->ngpio = gpios;
>
--
Cheers
- eric
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