Static allocatin is deprecated and may cause probe mess, if probe order is unusual. like this example [ 2.553833] twl4030_gpio twl4030-gpio: gpio (irq 145) chaining IRQs 161..178 [ 2.561401] gpiochip_find_base: found new base at 160 [ 2.564392] gpio gpiochip5: (twl4030): added GPIO chardev (254:5) [ 2.564544] gpio gpiochip5: registered GPIOs 160 to 177 on twl4030 [...] [ 2.692169] omap-gpmc 6e000000.gpmc: GPMC revision 5.0 [ 2.697357] gpmc_mem_init: disabling cs 0 mapped at 0x0-0x1000000 [ 2.703643] gpiochip_find_base: found new base at 178 [ 2.704376] gpio gpiochip6: (omap-gpmc): added GPIO chardev (254:6) [ 2.704589] gpio gpiochip6: registered GPIOs 178 to 181 on omap-gpmc [...] [ 2.840393] gpio gpiochip7: Static allocation of GPIO base is deprecated, use dynamic allocation. [ 2.849365] gpio gpiochip7: (gpio-160-191): GPIO integer space overlap, cannot add chip [ 2.857513] gpiochip_add_data_with_key: GPIOs 160..191 (gpio-160-191) failed to register, -16 [ 2.866149] omap_gpio 48310000.gpio: error -EBUSY: Could not register gpio chip So probing was done in an unusual order, causing mess and chips not getting their gpio in the end. Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- maybe CC stable? not sure about good fixes tag. drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c index 80ddc43fd875..f5f3d4b22452 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static int omap_gpio_chip_init(struct gpio_bank *bank, struct irq_chip *irqc, if (!label) return -ENOMEM; bank->chip.label = label; - bank->chip.base = gpio; + bank->chip.base = -1; } bank->chip.ngpio = bank->width; -- 2.30.2