Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: Implement devm_gpio_request_one()

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:46:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Allow drivers to use the modern request and configure idiom together
> with devres.

> As with plain gpio_request() and gpio_request_one() we can't implement
> the old school version in terms of _one() as this would force the
> explicit selection of a direction in gpio_request() which could break
> systems if we pick the wrong one.  Implementing devm_gpio_request_one()
> in terms of devm_gpio_request() would needlessly complicate things or
> lead to duplication from the unmanaged version depending on how it's
> done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Any chance we can get this into 3.5?  Writing error handling code is
boring :)
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