Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] eeprom: at24: write-protect pin support

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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2017-12-20 11:21 GMT+01:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> AT24 EEPROMs have a write-protect pin, which - when pulled high -
>>> inhibits writes to the upper quadrant of memory (although it has been
>>> observed that on some chips it disables writing to the entire memory
>>> range).
>>>
>>> On some boards, this pin is connected to a GPIO and pulled high by
>>> default, which forces the user to manually change its state before
>>> writing. On linux this means that we either need to hog the line all
>>> the time, or set the GPIO value before writing from outside of the
>>> at24 driver.
>>>
>>> This series adds support for the write-protect pin split into two
>>> parts. The first patch extends the relevant binding document, while
>>> the second modifies the at24 code to pull the write-protect GPIO
>>> low (if present) during write operations.
>>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> A one totally minor nit: if it possible now to have one line where
>> devm_gpiod_get_optional() is called?
>> You may ignore this nit anyway.
>>
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here. I do use
> devm_gpiod_get_optional() in patch 2/2.

I meant to do something like
...->wp_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(...);
if (IS_ERR(...))
  return ...;

So, note that the first is occupied only one line.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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