The gpiod_get_direction() returns 1 for input and 0 for output but it's pretty hard to remember which one is which and generally unintuitive and messy to provide #defines so let's simply add two static inlines to do the job. Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt | 14 +++++++++++--- include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt index 63e1bd1d88e3..c4b8e3d8c29f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt @@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ The device-managed variants are, unsurprisingly: Using GPIOs =========== -Setting Direction ------------------ +Setting and Getting Direction +----------------------------- The first thing a driver must do with a GPIO is setting its direction. If no direction-setting flags have been given to gpiod_get*(), this is done by invoking one of the gpiod_direction_*() functions: @@ -184,7 +184,15 @@ A driver can also query the current direction of a GPIO: int gpiod_get_direction(const struct gpio_desc *desc) -This function will return either GPIOF_DIR_IN or GPIOF_DIR_OUT. +This function will return either 1 (input) or 0 (output). There are also +these convenience helpers: + + bool gpiod_is_input(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + bool gpiod_is_output(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +These will not provide the same level of error fallbacks: if they fail to +obtain the direction, they will print an error and report as input since this +is usually safest. Be aware that there is no default direction for GPIOs. Therefore, **using a GPIO without setting its direction first is illegal and will result in undefined diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h index 7447d85dbe2f..4e5ee3ec1913 100644 --- a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h +++ b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h @@ -487,6 +487,31 @@ struct gpio_desc *devm_fwnode_get_index_gpiod_from_child(struct device *dev, #endif /* CONFIG_GPIOLIB */ +/* + * Helpers that quickly tell whether a line is input or output. + */ +static inline bool gpiod_is_input(struct gpio_desc *desc) +{ + int ret = gpiod_get_direction(desc); + if (ret < 0) { + pr_err("GPIO: failed to get direction\n"); + /* It is usually safest to assume we are input */ + return true; + } + return !!ret; +} + +static inline bool gpiod_is_output(struct gpio_desc *desc) +{ + int ret = gpiod_get_direction(desc); + if (ret < 0) { + pr_err("GPIO: failed to get direction\n"); + /* It is usually safest to assume we are input */ + return false; + } + return !ret; +} + static inline struct gpio_desc *devm_fwnode_get_gpiod_from_child(struct device *dev, const char *con_id, -- 2.14.3 -- 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