On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the gpio DT node has the gpio-ranges property, the range will be > added by the gpio core and doesn't need to be added by the pinctrl > driver. > > By having the gpio-ranges property, we have an explicit dependency from > the gpio node to the pinctrl node and we can stop using the deprecated > pinctrl_add_gpio_range() function. > > Note that when the GPIO device gets probed before the associated > princtrl device, the gpio core actually won't register the gpio range. > Thus, this patch is only safe to be merged after we have in place a way > to assure that gpio devices are probed after their associated pinctrl > devices (such as ordered probing). > > Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> This doesn't look like it would hurt, but need Stephen's opinion on it, and I think he's on vacation. Would check with next-in-line Tegra maintainer, Thierry/Alexandre? Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
