On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:40:48PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote:
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I'm stumped.  Could it be that the startup code is trying to register
the heartbeat device before it has registered the MAX7314, so it doesn't
know yet that the GPIO line exists?

Anyone have any suggestions?

drivers/gpio/pca953x.c doesn't register itself with the
OF GPIO infrastructure (plus the driver has an absolutely
bogus linux,gpio-base stuff, heh).

As an example of how to do the OF GPIO properly, see
arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mcu_mpc8349emitx.c:mcu_gpiochip_add().

Though, soon there will be an easier way to register I2C/SPI chips
with the OF GPIO infrastructure.

Thanks,

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