Re: [PATCH 5/5] gpio: move gpio_ensure_requested() into legacy C file

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> gpio_ensure_requested() only makes sense when using the integer-based
> GPIO API, so make sure it is called from there instead of the gpiod
> API which we know cannot be called with a non-requested GPIO anyway.
>
> The uses of gpio_ensure_requested() in the gpiod API were kind of
> out-of-place anyway, so putting them in gpio-legacy.c helps clearing the
> code.
>
> Actually, considering the time this ensure_requested mechanism has been
> around, maybe we should just turn this patch into "remove
> gpio_ensure_requested()" if we know for sure that no user depend on it
> anymore?
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Make a separate patch on top to delete this thing since there
are ZERO in-kernel users. The only place it's used in a comment
in arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c ....

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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