RE: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: indicate GPIO direction on single GPIOrequest

[Stephen Warren]

Linus Walleij wrote at Thursday, November 17, 2011 6:46 AM:
> When requesting a single GPIO pin to be muxed in, some controllers
> will need to poke a different value into the control register
> depending on whether the pin will be used for GPIO output or GPIO
> input. So pass this info along for the gpio_request_enable()
> function, we assume this is not needed for the gpio_free_disable()
> function for the time being.

My most recent comments in the thread following the previous patch re:
the need to expand the set of required pinctrl GPIO-related functions
apply to this patch.

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