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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: 74x164: add lines-initial-states property
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
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From:   David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
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Hi Linus,

On 8/16/18 10:11 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> This sounds like something that should be generic, and not use
> a bitmask, but offsets. It should work even if the number of
> GPIOs from the chip is > 32.
> 
> Is the usecase different from hogs?
> See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio.txt

Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed for my use-case (Asserting single
output to be high on driver probe) hogs are are sufficient solution.

Best wishes
David