Subject: Re: [PATCH] add gpiolib support for mpc5200

From: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:32:21 +0400

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:53:33PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > As for the wide spans caused by gpt gpios, it is probably okay for
> > now, but we can rework it to do something clever (like have a single
> > registration for all gpt gpios) at a later date.
> 
> I would rather teach the of gpio infrastructure not to reserve 32 gpios
> for each chip. This will bite us once we want to support gpio chips with
> more than 32 gpios anyway.

The patch already exists:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-March/052881.html

It is waiting for few patches that are in the -mm tree (Andrew said that
he'll push them into 2.6.26 at some point).

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