Re: [PATCH] gpio: 74x164: add lines-initial-states property

[David Bauer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Linus,

On 8/16/18 10:11 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> This sounds like something that should be generic, and not use
> a bitmask, but offsets. It should work even if the number of
> GPIOs from the chip is > 32.
> 
> Is the usecase different from hogs?
> See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio.txt

Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed for my use-case (Asserting single
output to be high on driver probe) hogs are are sufficient solution.

Best wishes
David