Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: change gpiochip_request_own_desc() prototype

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Tue Aug 19 2014 - 05:34:45 EST


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:50:57AM -0700, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> The current prototype of gpiochip_request_own_desc() requires to obtain
> a pointer to a descriptor. This is in contradiction to all other GPIO
> request schemes, and imposes an extra step of obtaining a descriptor to
> drivers. Most drivers actually cannot even perform that step since the
> function that does it (gpichip_get_desc()) is gpiolib-private.
>
> Change gpiochip_request_own_desc() to return a descriptor from a
> (chip, hwnum) tuple and update users of this function (currently
> gpiolib-acpi only).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested on Asus T100TA and everything still seems to work so,

Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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