Re: [RFC] gpio: remove gpio_descs global array

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The issue with this patch is its use of kzalloc() in gpiochip_add(), a
> function potentially called during early boot, before kzalloc() becomes
> usable. Hence its [RFC] status until we can find a solution for this or
> agree that this issue is actually never ran into (from which point can
> one use kzalloc()?)

So which driver requires that the gpiochip be statically defined...
I heard about early call but not *that* early.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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