On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 12:56 +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:30:16PM +0530, Ashish Jangam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:37 +0530, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 07:00:39PM +0530, Ashish Jangam wrote:
> 
> > > > +               /* Set the GPIO I/P pin for controlling the regulator 
> > > > state. */
> > > > +               ret = devm_gpio_request_one(config->dev, gpio, 
> > > > GPIOF_DIR_IN,
> > > > +                                           name);
> > > > +               if (ret < 0)
> > > > +                       goto err;
> 
> > > We never actually appear to use this GPIO anywhere...  why are we
> > > requesting it?
> 
> > DA9055 regulator changes its state by detecting the rising/failing edge at
> > GPI DA9055. Therefore we just need to set the DA9055 GPIO direction to 
> > input.
> 
> Right, so there's several problems here.  One is that this code is very
> obscure - you're really doing pinmux here rather than actually using it
> as a GPIO, a better comment would clarify this.  The other is that
> you're requiring a defined gpio_base in platform data, it would be
> better to allow this to be dynamically assigned as the driver can find
> it's own GPIOs easily enough.
Ok, will modify the comments and instead of taking gpio offset I will
take gpio number from the platform data.


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