Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: fix gpio-hog related boot issues

[Brian Masney]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:59:08AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:12 AM Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When attempting to setup up a gpio hog, device probing would repeatedly
> > fail with -EPROBE_DEFERED errors. It was caused by a circular dependency
> > between the gpio and pinctrl frameworks. If the gpio-ranges property is
> > present in device tree, then the gpio framework will handle the gpio pin
> > registration and eliminate the circular dependency.
> >
> > See Christian Lamparter's commit a86caa9ba5d7 ("pinctrl: msm: fix
> > gpio-hog related boot issues") for a detailed commit message that
> > explains the issue in much more detail. The code comment in this commit
> > came from Christian's commit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> No word from Bjorn but I trust my own intuition and applied it.
> 
> Björn: shout if it's wrong.
> 
> Question: should this also be done for pinctrl-ssbi-gpio.c?

Yes, I believe so.

Brian