Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: Implement devm_gpio_request_one()

From: Grant Likely
Date: Thu May 17 2012 - 20:10:44 EST


On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:02 +0100, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:46:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Allow drivers to use the modern request and configure idiom together
> > with devres.
>
> > As with plain gpio_request() and gpio_request_one() we can't implement
> > the old school version in terms of _one() as this would force the
> > explicit selection of a direction in gpio_request() which could break
> > systems if we pick the wrong one. Implementing devm_gpio_request_one()
> > in terms of devm_gpio_request() would needlessly complicate things or
> > lead to duplication from the unmanaged version depending on how it's
> > done.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any chance we can get this into 3.5? Writing error handling code is
> boring :)

Applied, thanks. I'll push it out this evening.

g.


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Grant Likely, B.Sc, P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies, Ltd.
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