Re: [PATCH] ARM: sa1100: Initialize gpio after gpio subsystem has been initialized

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> > Please ignore/drop this patch - a better (cleaner) fix is in the works
>> > for gpiolib.
>>
>> This delivers though. I tested it on my also regressing iPAQ.
>>
> I am a bit concerned that the gpio initialization was that early on purpose,
> and that by moving it we might miss some use cases. I did not find any, but that
> doesn't mean that there are none. Without knowing _why_ the initialization was
> that early, I would prefer not to touch the code if it can be avoided.

I think we'll go for the other patch to gpiolib. It seems much more clean
and generic to support this kind of cases.

Yours,
Linus Walleij