Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning

[Timur Tabi]

On 9/20/18 12:23 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> I think most gpiochips easily survives calling the .get_direction()
> early, Qualcomm's stand out here.
>
> Now that we have .valid_mask in the gpiochip could we simply just
> add this back, resepecting valid_mask and avoid checking the
> direction of precisely these GPIOs?

Can you be more specific?  One of the proposals made previously was to 
add a check in msm_gpio_get_direction(), but that was rejected because 
the consensus was the valid_mask checks in gpiolib are sufficient.