Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Split GPIO flags parsing and GPIO configuration

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When requesting a GPIO through the legacy or the gpiod_* API the
> gpiochip request operation is first called and then the GPIO flags are
> parsed and the GPIO is configured. This prevents the gpiochip from
> rejecting the request if the flags are not supported by the device.
>
> To fix this split the parse-and-configure operation in two and parse
> flags before requesting the GPIO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Very elegant, this is exactly how we need things to happen.
Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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