The change establishes a connection between on-SoC IOMUX controller(s) and GPIO controllers found on some SoC from Freescale/NXP iMX series, if a GPIO controller device node contains common gpio-ranges information. The change is backward compatible with respect to potentially not updated outdated DTB data without gpio-ranges propery, for such boards the only functional change is lowered initcall priority of GPIO controller driver, which in general anyway is exected to be used only after pinctrl/pinmux controller. If this change is applied the next interesting applications may be done as a follow-up work, for example switching pad function to GPIO on gpiod request, converting iomux controller driver to strict type and so on. For actual values of gpio-ranges properties please reference series "ARM: dts: imx: add gpio-ranges properties to some iMX GPIO controllers" http://archive.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20160819.220621.86d845d1.en.html Deepak Das (1): gpio: mxc: lower level of gpio_mxc_init() initcall Vladimir Zapolskiy (2): pinctrl: imx: accept gpio request/free from pinctrl gpio: mxc: add generic gpio request/free callbacks to pinctrl drivers/gpio/gpio-mxc.c | 7 ++++++- drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.8.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html