Re: [PATCH] IIO: Adds ACPI support for ST gyroscopes

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This has few problems that I have not yet figured out. Maybe someone
> here can suggest what to do:
>
>  1) Who is responsible in releasing the GPIO?
>  2) What if the driver wants to use that pin as a GPIO instead? The GPIO
>     is already requested by the I2C core.

In the DT usecase we actually specify that in the DTS file
so we don't have the problem. Either the consumer accesses
the irqchip API with:

interrupts = <nn nn>;

or it accesses the GPIO API with:

gpios = <nn nn>;

so in that sense it is clear what is requested. Then the core
of course uses gpiochip_lock/unlock_as_irq() to handle the
case where bugs make a collision (like if both were specified
and both APIs tries to access the same resource).

But as long as the DTS file is consistent there is no problem.

So it seems the ACPI tables are lacking this semantic
information?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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