Hi, Shawn > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/4] gpio: mxc: Support module build > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:40 AM Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Change config to tristate, add module device table, module author, > > description and license to support module build for i.MX GPIO driver. > > > > As this is a SoC GPIO module, it provides common functions for most of > > the peripheral devices, such as GPIO pins control, secondary interrupt > > controller for GPIO pins IRQ etc., without GPIO driver, most of the > > peripheral devices will NOT work properly, so GPIO module is similar > > with clock, pinctrl driver that should be loaded ONCE and never > > unloaded. > > > > Since MXC GPIO driver needs to have init function to register syscore > > ops once, here still use subsys_initcall(), NOT module_platform_driver(). > > > > Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx> > > This patch (1) applied to the GPIO tree. > Please apply the rest through the ARM SoC tree! > Could you please help pick the rest patch of this series? Otherwise, the i.MX GPIO driver will NOT be enabled by default and it will block kernel boot. Thanks, Anson