The Amstrad Delta on-board latch2 bit named MODEM_NRESET, now available as a GPIO pin AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_NMODEM_RESET, is used to power up/down (bring into/out of a reset state) two distinct on-board devices simultaneously: the modem, and the voice codec. As a consequence, that bit is, or can be, manipulated concurrently by two drivers, or their platform provided hooks.
Instead of updating those drivers to use the gpiolib API as a new method of controlling the MODEM_NRESET pin state, like it was done to other drivers accessing latch2 pins, and still being vulnerable to potential concurrency conflicts, or trying to solve that sharing issue with a custom piece of code, set up a fixed regulator device on top of that GPIO pin and update both drivers to manipulate that regulator, not the GPIO pin directly.
Janusz Krzysztofik (4): ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: set up regulator over modem reset GPIO pin ASoC: cx20442: add bias control over a platform provided regulator ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: update the modem to use regulator API ASoC: OMAP: ams-delta: drop .set_bias_level callback
arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig | 2 + arch/arm/mach-omap1/board-ams-delta.c | 116 +++++++++++++++++++-- arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/board-ams-delta.h | 1 - sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c | 58 ++++++++++- sound/soc/omap/ams-delta.c | 34 ------ 5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)