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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:12:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: TODO: add an item about GPIO safe-state
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
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        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
        Drew Fustini <dfustini@baylibre.com>,
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        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:11 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:

> Of course we were not the first ones to think about it...

:D

> I'll read through it later. Was there any particular reason why this
> never made its way into the kernel?

Inability to drive through a DT binding that was acceptable for the
DT binding maintainers.

A good idea to get it passed I think would be to ask Rob (with some
examples) how he thinks it should look and finalize the bindings
before coding.

Yours,
Linus Walleij