On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that all[1] users of the gpiod_get functions are converted to make > use of the up to now optional flags parameter, make it mandatory which > allows to remove some cpp magic. > > [1] all but etraxfs-uart which is broken anyhow and I'm allowed to > ignore it by Jesper Nilsson :-) > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> > --- > Hello, > > the claim that all drivers are fixed is only true in my tree. I sent > several patches, some of them are not in next yet. > > The gpiod branch in my repo[2] currently contains (in this order): > - several patches cherry-picked from next that introduce new users of > gpiod_get without flags; > - several patches that fix gpiod_get users to make use of flags that > are already in next; > - several patches that fix gpiod_get users to make use of flags that > are not yet in next; > - this patch > > I loosely agreed to Linus and Alexandre to get this change into next as > soon as 4.2-rc1 arrives. To assert that they have seen it before, I send > this mail. Also the remaining patches in my tree that don't make it into > 4.2-rc1 should probably be taken before. So I plan to rebase my tree on > top of 4.2-rc1 as soon as it arrives and ask Linus to pull it for next > in the hope that it became considerably shorter by then. At least the > first two groups above should disappear. > > Some of the patches in the category "not in next yet" didn't get a > response from a maintainer. I just pinged these. > > I wrote a cocci-rule that finds all offending users, so I'm fairly > confident that I caught all of them as of next-20150615.
Uwe, a big *thank you* for taking care of this and making GPIO safer for everyone. Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in
