Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc5 1/2] gpiolib: dynamic gpio number allocation

[David Brownell]

On Thursday 13 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> hm.  I suppose that if someone want a huge number of GPIOs then we can
> convert this to a bitmap or an IDR tree easily enough.

Actually, I tried IDRs for a while and they broke platforms
which needed to initialize and use GPIOs early: before kmalloc
would work.  A real PITA that was -- and slow too.


> Shouldn't ARCH_NR_GPIOS be CONFIG_NR_GPIOS?

No more than NR_IRQS is settable via Kconfig.  And for
rather similar reasons.  :)

- Dave
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