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From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 15:01:56 +0800
Subject: [RFC 2/2] ARM:Tegra: Device Tree Support: Initialize audio card
	gpio's from the device tree.
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On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:18:09PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:

> I'm currently dealing with an SoC that has over a hundred GPIOs.
> Whatever we choose, I think it should be able to handle an insane
> number of GPIOs without getting any more cumbersome that is
> necessary.

This is *consumer* side GPIOs, not bindings for the device providing the
GPIOs.  If a single device needs to use hundreds of GPIOs I'd expect
many of them will be block functions so you'd have a binding with an
array for things like "databus" and "addrbus".