Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: fix a few issues with gpiochip_remove

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Octavian Purdila
<octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The current implementation of gpiochip_remove() does not check to see
> if the GPIO pins are busy before removing the associated irqchip and
> this is causing the following warning:
(...)
> A retry operation is needed in the case of MFD devices that bundles a
> GPIO device and another device that is an indirect consumer of the
> GPIO device (typical an I2C bus).

We have just finalized a set of patches making gpiochip_remove()
not return an error code, because it just must work.

It seems like this patch want us to sort of reverse that whole train
of work and go back to the old style of having gpiochip_remove()
be able to fail :-/

I would suggest that if this usecase is to be supported for thing
like MFD devices, we need to introduce gpiochip_try_remove()
in parallel with the current implementation, so that those drivers
that actually want to retry the remove the chip can use that
interface explicitly.

Can you look into this option?

Please also look over gpiochip_remove() as it looks right now
in linux-next...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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