Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:11:28 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC] gpio: remove gpio_descs global array | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> The issue with this patch is its use of kzalloc() in gpiochip_add(), a > function potentially called during early boot, before kzalloc() becomes > usable. Hence its [RFC] status until we can find a solution for this or > agree that this issue is actually never ran into (from which point can > one use kzalloc()?)
So which driver requires that the gpiochip be statically defined... I heard about early call but not *that* early.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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