Re: [PATCHv4 2/2] Add a GPIO driver for Altera FPGA Manager Fabric I/O

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, October 20, 2017 5:48:11 PM CEST Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> On 10/20/17 18:45, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Bernd Edlinger
> > <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 10/20/17 10:10, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > 
> >>>> +       err = bgpio_init(&port->bgc, gpio->dev, 4, dat, NULL, NULL,
> >>>> +                        NULL, NULL, 0);
> >>>
> >>> But all you add is input-only GPIO chips. Also for the output ports.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well actually this allows both input and output,
> >> but while the input port could be written by accident,
> >> the hardware does the right thing and ignores the write cycle.
> >>
> >> The other parameters of bgpio_input are for devices with
> >> explicit set- and reset-signals, and configurable
> >> output-direction etc, which I don't have.
> > 
> > Ah! You're right. With just one register it becomes one of these that
> > read and write into that register, simply. Sorry for my ignorance.
> > 
> > I would prefer if you set the flag BGPIOF_NO_OUTPUT on the input
> > only version though. Semantics may matter to the mmio gpio core.
> > 
> 
> Ah, thanks, that's a good suggestion.
> 
> I will do that and send an updated patch.
Wait.

I had the same comment about this earlier and a few more suggestions
to move the driver to gpio-mmio's dt. Didn't you read the mail?

<https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=150678737724132&w=2>

It made it to the list archive, so I'm pretty sure this got delivered
to you as well.

Regards,
Christian
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html