On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 07:43:13PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is not my area, so i will deffer to the GPIO
Maintainers. However, it is not clear to me what get_direction()
should return.

This callback should return the current direction as set up
in the hardware.

A major usecase is that this is called when the gpiochip is
registered to read out all the current directions of the GPIO
lines, so the kernel has a clear idea of the state of the
hardware.

Calling this should ideally result in a read of the status from
a hardware register.

O.K, so completely different to what is proposed in this patch.

Maybe you can suggest a better name.

	Andrew