Re: [PATCH RESEND] gpio: add flags to export GPIOs when requesting

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Fri Jan 06 2012 - 10:27:54 EST


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:34:01PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Introduce new flags to automatically export GPIOs when using the convenience
> functions gpio_request_one() or gpio_request_array(). This eases support for
> custom boards where lots of GPIOs need to be exported for customer
> applications.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Based on 3.2-rc5. Previous discussion (with kind of acks) can be found here
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/15/378

Ping. I am using this patch with v3.2 right now and it is really useful
(and no build failure this time (I owe you a drink for my last patch!))

>
> Documentation/gpio.txt | 3 +++
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> include/linux/gpio.h | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt
> index 792faa3..9e28c05 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt
> @@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ where 'flags' is currently defined to specify the following properties:
> * GPIOF_INIT_LOW - as output, set initial level to LOW
> * GPIOF_INIT_HIGH - as output, set initial level to HIGH
>
> + * GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_FIXED - export gpio to sysfs, keep direction
> + * GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_CHANGEABLE - also export, allow changing direction
> +
> since GPIOF_INIT_* are only valid when configured as output, so group valid
> combinations as:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index a971e3d..65ba047 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -1285,8 +1285,18 @@ int gpio_request_one(unsigned gpio, unsigned long flags, const char *label)
> (flags & GPIOF_INIT_HIGH) ? 1 : 0);
>
> if (err)
> - gpio_free(gpio);
> + goto free_gpio;
> +
> + if (flags & GPIOF_EXPORT) {
> + err = gpio_export(gpio, flags & GPIOF_EXPORT_CHANGEABLE);
> + if (err)
> + goto free_gpio;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
>
> + free_gpio:
> + gpio_free(gpio);
> return err;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_request_one);
> diff --git a/include/linux/gpio.h b/include/linux/gpio.h
> index 38ac48b..38afe24 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gpio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gpio.h
> @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
> #define GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW (GPIOF_DIR_OUT | GPIOF_INIT_LOW)
> #define GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH (GPIOF_DIR_OUT | GPIOF_INIT_HIGH)
>
> +#define GPIOF_EXPORT (1 << 2)
> +#define GPIOF_EXPORT_CHANGEABLE (1 << 3)
> +#define GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_FIXED (GPIOF_EXPORT)
> +#define GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_CHANGEABLE (GPIOF_EXPORT | GPIOF_EXPORT_CHANGEABLE)
> +
> /**
> * struct gpio - a structure describing a GPIO with configuration
> * @gpio: the GPIO number
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>

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