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SubjectRe: [patch 2.6.25-rc4] gpio/pca953x bugfix: mark as can_sleep
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:56 AM, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> The pca953x driver is an I2C driver so gpio_chip->can_sleep should be set.
> This lets upper layers know they should use the gpio_*_cansleep() calls
> to access values, and may not access them from nonsleeping contexts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> Merge before 2.6.25-final, please. This will for example prevent
> leds-gpio from issuing blocking I2C calls from timer/irq contexts.
>
> drivers/gpio/pca953x.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> --- g26.orig/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-03-08 11:17:22.000000000 -0800
> +++ g26/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-03-09 13:51:13.000000000 -0700
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static void pca953x_setup_gpio(struct pc
> gc->direction_output = pca953x_gpio_direction_output;
> gc->get = pca953x_gpio_get_value;
> gc->set = pca953x_gpio_set_value;
> + gc->can_sleep = 1;
>
> gc->base = chip->gpio_start;
> gc->ngpio = gpios;
>



--
Cheers
- eric


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