On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:34:41AM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Sifan Naeem <[email protected]> wrote:

> > spfi_setup may be called many times bye the spi framework, but
> > gpio_request_one can only be called once without freeing, repeatedly
> > calling gpio_request_one will cause an error to be thrown, which causes
> > the request to spi_setup to be marked as failed.

> > We can simply use gpio_direction_output to set the direction of the
> > gpio instead of gpio_request_one to put the gpio in to initial state,
> > after which the spi framework can control the chipselect line via gpio
> > using gpio_set_value.

> I don't think we want to leave the CS GPIOs un-requested.  Instead, we
> could either request them all at probe() time (and then set direction
> in setup()) or have a per-spi_device flag that indicates whether or
> not the GPIO has been requested.

Not requesting the GPIOs at all would just be a straight up bug.

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