Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] gpio: pca953x: Allow interrupt support when compiled as module

[Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Alexander Stein
<alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With commit 2fd36c55264926e268deb50f6de5f43fa5e490f7
> ("i2c: core: Map OF IRQ at probe time") it seems that there is no need
> to force this driver to be compiled into the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is completely untested, as I lack a board capable of running a v3.18-rcX
> kernel. But I noticed on an older kernel that this driver failed requesting
> irq 0 during kernel boot. 0 because it's irq parent was not yet probed (also
> a compiled in driver). With the mentioned commit this should work now.
> It is currently only in
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git/log/?h=i2c/for-next

Looks harmless to me, but could we have a Tested-by from someone who
can try this?
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