On 13 July 2015 at 22:14, Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry about that, but I have split these changes out into their own
series after people complained about it.

Have just sent a new version which already has Stephen's ack:

https://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected]

Thanks,

Tomeu
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