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Re: [PATCH soc-camera] Replace NO_GPIO with gpio_is_valid()




On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > 	that hoping that -EINVAL happens to be invalid on every
> > platform.
>
> Negative numbers have always been guaranteed to be invalid GPIO numbers.
> That's been part of the interface spec from day one.

Ahh, and so it has been:
	GPIOs are identified by unsigned integers in the range 0..MAX_INT.
	That reserves "negative" numbers for other purposes like marking
	signals as "not available on this board", or indicating faults.

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