On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:04 -0700, David Brownell wrote:

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So if we register the board infos after 
the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos.

See above.  If you're doing it right, there's no problem.
That is, scan the OF tables early.  Just like PNP tables
get scanned early, for example.

It's still pretty yucky in that case to scan the device-tree to convert
it into some kind of fugly board info ... I'd rather have the end
drivers that actually use those GPIOs scan the device-tree directly.

But then, I'm not a believer in generic drivers for things like GPIOs,
i2c devices, etc.. :-)

Ben.