Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:35:39 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> I still haven't seen an answer to why we really care about this; how > many times has code actually allocated the same GPIO/IRQ when it > shouldn't, in a way that it wasn't detectable by some other mechanism, > i.e. the feature just not working? Why are we even trying to solve this > issue? I'm not totally convinced it even makes sense to try and solve it.
We care about this because a number of OMAP boards are not working properly when booted from device tree, and they have a hard time figuring out a solution to the problem. Last try exploded. Now they are looking to create a patch that will fix the actual problem.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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