On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2015 01:40:56 Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> The PFC driver causes the kernel to hang on the R-Car gen2 SoC based  boards
>> when the CPU_ALL_PORT() macro is fixed to reflect the reality, i.e. when
>> the GPIO space becomes actually sparse.  This happens because the
>> _GP_GPIO() macro includes  an indexed initializer which causes the "holes"
>> (array entries filled with all 0s) between the groups  of the existing
>> GPIOs; and the driver can't cope with that.  There seems to  be no reason
>> to use the indexed initializer, so we can remove the index specifier and so
>> avoid the "holes".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]>
>
> I initially thought that this patch looked too good to be true. The fix is so
> simple, there must have been a reason why _GP_GPIO used indexed initializers.
> I then tried to find that reason and failed.
>
> I still feel that this is too simple to be true, but I have no objective
> reason to push back, so

:-)

> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
>
> for the whole series, provided you have tested it, and paid attention to pins
> after the holes.

On r8a7791/koelsch, the switches (gpio banks 5 and 7) and LEDs (gpio bank 2)
still work, so
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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