Re: [PATCH v4] backlight: corgi_lcd: Use gpio_set_value_cansleep() toavoid WARN_ON

[Jingoo Han]

On Monday, December 10, 2012 5:18 PM, Jingoo Han wrote
> On Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:22 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:20:00PM +0100, Marko KatiÄ wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> > > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:59:07AM +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
...
> > Eric shares my opinion of the _cansleep() mess, but unfortunately it's
> > what we have and no one's come up with any better solutions to it.  (I
> > argued from the outset that the gpio_xxx_cansleep() should've been
> > gpio_xxx() and the non-cansleep() version should be called
> > gpio_xxx_atomic() so that by default people use the version which _can_
> > sleep, but have to think about it when they want to manipulate GPIOs in
> > non-task contexts.)
> 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Thank you for your explanation. It is very helpful for getting hold of.
> I have been confused by the current function name such as gpio_xxx_cansleep().
> As you mentioned, gpio_xxx_cansleep()and gpio_xxx_atomic() would be better.

Oh, sorry. There is a mistake.

It should be as below:
'gpio_xxx()and gpio_xxx_atomic() would be better'.


Best regards,
Jingoo Han



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