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From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons•com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: mxs: Use set and clear capabilities of the gpio controller
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:37:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5194FD48.3010106@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130502024443.GE3442@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net>

Hi Linus,

Le 02/05/2013 04:44, Shawn Guo a ?crit :
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> The current driver doesn't use the set and clear registers found on the
>> mxs gpio controller.
>>
>> This leads the generic gpio controller to be using some internal value
>> to avoid looking up the value stored in the registers, making it behave
>> pretty much like a cache.
>>
>> This raises some coherency problem when a gpio is not modified by the
>> gpio controller, while it can easily be fixed by using the set and clear
>> registers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons•com>
> 
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro•org>

Would you consider merging this patch?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 14:07 [PATCH] gpio: mxs: Use set and clear capabilities of the gpio controller Maxime Ripard
2013-05-02  2:44 ` Shawn Guo
2013-05-16 15:37   ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2013-05-20 18:15 ` Linus Walleij

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