It's actually fine to read values of output lines. This was also allowed by the legacy sysfs interface. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 57973524360d..19d36698574b 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static long linehandle_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd, int i; if (cmd == GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL) { - /* TODO: check if descriptors are really input */ + /* NOTE: It's ok to read values of output lines. */ int ret = gpiod_get_array_value_complex(false, true, lh->numdescs, -- 2.17.1 -- 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