On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 11/19/2013 05:00 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:

quoted

And that happens before the GPIO driver gets registered -> crash.

That is not the issue. The real issue is h3xxx using those gpio's without
previously calling gpio_request.

Really? But that wasn't done before this patch either.

It is basically OK to use the gpio_* functions before or
without requesting the GPIOs, it won't look nice but it
works.

Unfortunately sa1100 driver doesn't have a
good place to request gpios. When faced this problem during locomo
refactoring, I ended up with the following piece of code:

(...)

Russell, Linus, what do you think about the previous solution?

That looks OK but is that really the problem?

Yours,
Linus Walleij