Re: [PATCH] cs5535_gpio: gpio_chip.get should return the inputvalue

[Andres Salomon]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:16:43 -0600
Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> > What were the user-visible effects of this bug?
> >>
> >> The user-visible effects were that the input didn't work.
> >> I use the CS5535 chip in a custom board that uses GPIO 25 and 26 as
> >> voltage monitoring inputs (external voltage comparators).
> >> Since the char-based cs5535-gpio is now deprecated, I'm trying out
> >> the gpio driver.
> >> I export the GPIO pins via sysfs to access them from user-space.
> >> Reading the 'value' member didn't reflect the input.
> >
> > OK, then in that case we'd want to backport this into 2.6.33.x and
> > perhaps earlier?
> 
> It looks like the driver was added 15 Dec 2009, so it doesn't look
> like it existed in an earlier kernel.

But it should definitely be added to 2.6.33.y.

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