Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Take MUX usage into account

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:34 PM Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The user space like gpioinfo only see the GPIO usage but not the
> MUX usage (e.g. I2C or SPI usage) of a pin. As a user we want to know which
> pin is free/safe to use. So take the MUX usage of strict pinmux controllers
> into account to get a more realistic view for ioctl GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-By: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Sending Stefan's RFC as patch, as I tested it and it seems to work,
> additionally, an accompanying fix was made by me to gpiolibd to fix a
> display error of the actual result:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1139923/

This is mostly fine, some style nits so I fixed it up when
applying.

Yours,
Linus Walleij