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Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Split GPIO flags parsing and GPIO configuration

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:

> When requesting a GPIO through the legacy or the gpiod_* API the
> gpiochip request operation is first called and then the GPIO flags are
> parsed and the GPIO is configured. This prevents the gpiochip from
> rejecting the request if the flags are not supported by the device.
>
> To fix this split the parse-and-configure operation in two and parse
> flags before requesting the GPIO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

Very elegant, this is exactly how we need things to happen.
Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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[PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Split GPIO flags parsing and GPIO configuration Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - 2015-10-12 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Split GPIO flags parsing and GPIO configuration Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2015-10-16 22:50 +0200

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