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| author | Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org> | 2010-09-10 03:38:02 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-09-10 05:57:24 +0400 |
| commit | 5affb607720d734ca572b8a77c5c7d62d3042b6f (patch) | |
| tree | 5c3a675bef03570958fc4e9baffb318ec7f64e31 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0dcc48c15f63ee86c2fcd33968b08d651f0360a5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5affb607720d734ca572b8a77c5c7d62d3042b6f.tar.xz | |
gpio: sx150x: correct and refine reset-on-probe behavior
Replace the arbitrary software-reset call from the device-probe
method, because:
- It is defective. To work correctly, it should be two byte writes,
not a single word write. As it stands, it does nothing.
- Some devices with sx150x expanders installed have their NRESET pins
ganged on the same line, so resetting one causes the others to reset -
not a nice thing to do arbitrarily!
- The probe, usually taking place at boot, implies a recent hard-reset,
so a software reset at this point is just a waste of energy anyway.
Therefore, make it optional, defaulting to off, as this will match the
common case of probing at powerup and also matches the current broken
no-op behavior.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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