Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexandre Courbot <> | Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2014 18:10:16 +0900 | Subject | Re: [RFC] gpio: remove gpio_descs global array |
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote: > 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.
Let me know if you feel adventurous - in that case I will submit a proper version of this patch to put in -next, and we'll see if people complain... :)
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