Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] pinctrl: samsung: Register pinctrl before GPIO

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If we request a GPIO hog, then gpiochip_add_data will attempt to request
> some of its own GPIOs. The driver also uses gpiochip_generic_request
> which means that for any GPIO request to succeed the pinctrl needs to be
> registered. Currently however the driver registers the GPIO and then the
> pinctrl meaning all GPIO hog requests will fail, which then in turn causes
> the whole driver to fail probe. Fix this up by ensuring we register the
> pinctrl first. Although currently there are no users of GPIO hogs in
> mainline there are plenty of Samsung based boards that are widely used
> for development purposes of other hardware. Indeed we hit this issue
> whilst attaching some additional hardware to an Arndale system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - Updated commit message

Patch applied. Will not be visible in -next until after the merge window
though.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
--
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