Re: [PATCH 9/9] OMAP:GPIO: Implement GPIO as a platform device

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> [100505 13:54]:
> "Varadarajan, Charulatha" <charu@ti.com> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman@deeprootsystems.com]
> >
> > 2. omap_init_irq() needs to be completed before calling early_gpio_init().
> > So, if early_gpio_init() is called from omap2_init_common_hw(), we need to
> > have omap_init_irq() called before omap2_init_common_hw(). But Tony
> > objected this approach mentioning that board might not boot up as
> > omap2_init_common_hw() has to be done asap.
> >
> > That's why, I had not moved the omap_gpio_init() usage from board files.
> 
> OK... for now.  I'd still like to see GPIO init consolidated as there's
> no (good) reason why every board file has to init GPIOs when it's common
> for all SoCs, but this doesn't necessarily have to be done in your series.
> Although, if you do it for OMAP1 (as proposed below) you should do similar
> for OMAP2+.

Let's try to use just arch/subsys_initcall for starting the GPIO. AFAIK
we don't need it earlier than that. See also my comments to the patch 5/9.

Regards,

Tony