On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 3) I’m not very fond of having this being part of the gpio controller. This > configuration conceptually has little to do with the gpio controller per se, > it is more of a board specific thing. Why not come up with a gpio-hog driver that > references GPIOs? That way with a single gpio-hog driver instance you could setup > all the GPIO-hogging configuration for all GPIOs on the board, even one that > lie on different GPIO controllers. You have a point. But it's vital that we set up hogs at the same time as the gpio_chip is probed, not later, or there may be a race as to who gets the GPIO line, and that should be avoided at any cost. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
