Re: [RFC PATCH] gpio: Add a defer reset object to send board specific reset

From: Houcheng Lin
Date: Sun Jun 15 2014 - 01:16:24 EST


Hi Linus, please see my replies below,

2014-06-12 20:35 GMT+08:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> OK this is interesting stuff..
>
> But this driver *MUST* live under drivers/power/reset/*, as it
> has absolutely *nothing* to do with GPIO except for being a consumer
> of it. I won't merge it.
>
> And you should discuss it with Dmitry and David W.
>
> But I will review it nevertheless :-D

Thanks for this information, I changed source to under drivers/
power/reset.

>
> OK so reset init and reset end is a way to specify when reset
> is asserted (as one or zero).
>
> DON'T do this. The GPIO bindings already know a way to define
> if GPIOs are active high or low, and the gpiod interface will invert
> the signal for you if this is specified as active low.
>
> This way you get rid of both strange properties.
>

May I reserve the "reset-init" and ""reset-end" properties? As
some boards use power line off to reset device. The power line
is active high when as power but active low when as a reset signal.

>
> You forgot to free the deferred_reset_list here. Fix that.
>

Thank a lot for your reviews :) Here are fixed of version 2:
- change location to drivers/power/reset
- remove unused #include
- change to use GPIO descriptor interface and use customer.h
- free resources after issue reset. However, if a enclosing
chip is not probled, the correpsonding reset will not send
and memeory is still not free in this case.
- other minor fixs

Best regards,
Houcheng Lin
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