Re: [PATCH/RFC] gpio: em: Use dynamic allocation of GPIOs

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Monday 17 November 2014 15:30:32 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

quoted

Use dynamic allocation of GPIOs instead of looking at the gpio%u alias
in DT.
---
  - Is this correct? Not having to care about the alias would simplify the
    to-be-written DT binding documentation.
  - Completely untested.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

This will obviously break any user that expects a particular gpio
number, in particular board files, but I guess also user space
that tries to access the gpios through sysfs.

If you don't have any of those, I guess it's correct.

Emev2/kzm9d was the first DT-only shmobile SoC/board, so the kernel
part should be OK.

No idea about userspace.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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