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.
This is v3 of this series, with Mark's Ack for ASoC subtree touching changes already collected, rebased on top of linux-omap/ams-delta tip, commit da564a05b3aefe403062411b67d64b7e992718f7.
There were initially 4 patches in the series, but patch 2/4, "ASoC: cx20442: add bias control over a platform provided regulator", has been since then applied by Liam to the ASoC tree (thanks!) and is already present in mainline (commit f75a8ff67d161b5166a2c2360bb2ffaefd5eb853), hence omitted from this submission.
v2 -> v3 changes: * fix section mismatch issue present in previous versions of patch 1/3.
v2 changes against initial version: * in both the codec and the modem callbacks, don't track the regulator enable/disable state, compare new target bias level (the codec case) or power state (the modem case) with the old value instead; thanks to Mark Brown who suggested this solution, * a few other minor changes, mostly stylistic.
Janusz Krzysztofik (3): ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: set up regulator over modem reset GPIO pin 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 | 94 +++++++++++++++++++-- arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/board-ams-delta.h | 1 - sound/soc/omap/ams-delta.c | 32 ------- 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)