Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips

From: David Brownell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:02:43 -0800

On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
> > Why have two options, instead of just the first/simpler one??
> 
> Because I2C/SPI drivers allocate (and register) gpio_chip structures
> by themselves, so the first option is a no-go.

You should be mentioning such issues in the patch comments.