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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:53:35 +0000
From:   Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gpio: Add reference counting for non-exclusive GPIOs
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:54:28PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:30:28PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> 
> > Would there perhaps be milage in looking at just making
> > the regulator core request the GPIO, rather than the end
> > drivers? Gives us a single request/free point. We don't need
> > any special flags in the GPIO layer, as its just a single
> > user as far as GPIO is concerned.
> 
> Yes, I did suggest that earlier in the thread :/

Sorry yes it seems I misread what you had written earlier, I will
have a quick look see what a patch to do this might look like.

Thanks,
Charles