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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:02:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: Add ability to get GPIO pin direction
To: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
        David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>,
        "Uwe Kleine-K?nig" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:54 -0600, Peter Tyser wrote:
>> Add a new get_direction() function to the gpio_chip structure. ?This is
>> useful so that the direction of a pin can be determined when its
>> exported. ?Previously, the direction defaulted to 'in' regardless of the
>> actual configuration of the GPIO pin which resulted in the 'direction'
>> sysfs file often being incorrect.
>>
>> If a GPIO driver implements get_direction(), it is called in
>> gpio_request() to set the initial direction of the pin accurately.
>
> I see Grant was just added as a GPIO maintainer, so added him on CC.
>
> Anything gating getting these 3 patches being picked up?

I'll take a look at them later today.

g.
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