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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: mxc: migrate mach-mx5 gpio driver to gpio-mxc
    On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:28:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
    > On Tuesday 31 May 2011, Shawn Guo wrote:
    > > > Just open-code the mxc_add_mxc_gpio() by moving the individual calls to
    > > > mxc_add_gpio() into the respective callers. Having a global
    > > > mxc_add_mxc_gpio() function that does something different for each
    > > > caller seems entirely pointless to me.
    > > >
    > > Right now, mxc_add_mxc_gpio() is a postcore_initcall. Moving
    > > individual mxc_add_gpio() call into irq_init function does not work.
    > > And I need to find a proper caller for each SoC to call mxc_add_gpio
    > > to register gpio devices.
    >
    > Why not init_machine? That is an arch_initcall(), so it's probably close
    > enough.
    >
    The init_machine is mostly a board specific function than SoC specific
    one. That is to say we will call mxc_add_gpio() in every single board
    init function even for the same SoC.

    --
    Regards,
    Shawn



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