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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:14:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>, 
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, 
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 1:59=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote=
:

> Of course we don't want to make it a first-class interface
> because of the reasons you explain in the cover letter,
> but it would totally make sense to me to call it a
> debugging feature of libgpio instead of calling it a
> standalone driver.

I second this opinion. The logic analyzer does in my mind
classify as a GPIO debugging feature. Surely someone
debugging anything connected to GPIO, such as a key or
MMC card detect or whatever could use this feature to see
what is going on on that line.

Yours,
Linus Walleij