Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexandre Courbot <> | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:41:23 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] gpiolib: Export gpiochip_request_own_desc and gpiochip_free_own_desc |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > Both functions were introduced to let gpio drivers request their own > gpio pins. Without exporting the functions, this can however only be > used by gpio drivers built into the kernel. > > Secondary impact is that the functions can not currently be used by > platform initialization code associated with the gpio-pca953x driver. > This code permits auto-export of gpio pins through platform data, but > if this functionality is used, the module can no longer be unloaded due > to the problem solved with the introduction of gpiochip_request_own_desc > and gpiochip_free_own_desc. > > Export both function so they can be used from modules and from > platform initialization code. > > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Makes sense to have them there.
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
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