On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Both functions were introduced to let gpio drivers request their own > gpio pins. Without exporting the functions, this can however only be > used by gpio drivers built into the kernel. > > Secondary impact is that the functions can not currently be used by > platform initialization code associated with the gpio-pca953x driver. > This code permits auto-export of gpio pins through platform data, but > if this functionality is used, the module can no longer be unloaded due > to the problem solved with the introduction of gpiochip_request_own_desc > and gpiochip_free_own_desc. > > Export both function so they can be used from modules and from > platform initialization code. > > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Makes sense to have them there. Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
