Paul Mundt wrote:
> In some cases that might be valid, but there are many cases where drivers
> can reconfigure their capability sets based on which GPIOs are and aren't
> available. Just because a pin isn't available doesn't make it a
> show-stopper for the probe path..
>
Understood.
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:33:53PM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> >
> >> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will
> >> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to
Grant Likely wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt wrote:
>
>> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will
>> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to do
>> this as a free-for-all. Devices or busses that can tolerate multi-
Paul Mundt wrote:
>
> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will
> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to do
> this as a free-for-all. Devices or busses that can tolerate multi-threaded
> probing need to be converted over one at a time, bu
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will
> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to do
> this as a free-for-all. Devices or busses that can tolerate multi-threaded
> probing need to be
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:35:41AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:23 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> >
> >> My recent post, "Requesting a GPIO that hasn't been registered yet", and
> >> Anton's reply thereto (thanks, Anton!) on linuxppc-dev g
Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>
>> Guys:
>>
>>
>> My recent post, "Requesting a GPIO that hasn't been registered yet", and
>> Anton's reply thereto (thanks, Anton!) on linuxppc-dev got me thinking
>> about the problem of dependencies between devices i
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:23 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>
>> My recent post, "Requesting a GPIO that hasn't been registered yet", and
>> Anton's reply thereto (thanks, Anton!) on linuxppc-dev got me thinking
>> about the problem of dependencies between devices in d
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:23 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>
> My recent post, "Requesting a GPIO that hasn't been registered yet", and
> Anton's reply thereto (thanks, Anton!) on linuxppc-dev got me thinking
> about the problem of dependencies between devices in different classes,
> and/or between d
