[PATCH v2] staging: iio: ad7816: Switch to the gpio descriptor interface

Lars-Peter Clausen lars at metafoo.de
Thu Oct 18 07:40:00 UTC 2018


On 10/18/2018 09:28 AM, Phil Reid wrote:
[...]
>> +    chip->rdwr_pin = devm_gpiod_get(&spi_dev->dev, "rdwr", GPIOD_IN);
>> +    if (IS_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin)) {
>> +        ret = PTR_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin);
>> +        dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "Failed to request rdwr GPIO: %d\n",
>> +            ret);
>>           return ret;
>>       }
>> -    gpio_direction_input(chip->rdwr_pin);
> 
> The RD/WR pin is an input to the AD78xx. So this doesn't make sense being
> GPIOD_IN.

One thing at a time. This patch is a straight forward conversion to the GPIO
descriptor interface. It keeps the existing semantics of the driver as they are.

Now these semantics are obviously wrong and should be fixed but that should
be a separate patch from changing the interface.


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