Re: Enable buttons GPIO passthrough

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:21 AM Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 18:32, Wang, Kuiying <kuiying.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joel/Andrew,
> >
> > I write a drive to enable GPIO passthrough for buttons (like power/reset/id button) as
> > following attached patch.
> >
> > Do you think it is acceptable?
> >
> > Or we could do it in pinmux and extend gpio driver? Design passthrough state
> > except in/out.
>
> I think that this direction would be better than a misc driver. I've
> added Linus, the maintainer for these subsystems, and the linux-gpio
> mailing list to cc.

I am sorry but I'm confused about this. It's a very terse explanation
of the problem and a bunch of code.

Can you folks please define what exactly you mean with a
"GPIO passthrough" and what you are trying to achieve with
this on these buttons?

Yours,
Linus Walleij