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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:29:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: i.MX6: set ARCH_NR_GPIO to 244
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:46:07PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:
> > - Do you like to propose a better macro than SOC_IMX6Q to cover
> > imx3/imx6, too?
> > 
> No, I do not see the need of this.  CONFIG_ARCH_NR_GPIO is not the only
> way to overwrite the default number.  We can define ARCH_NR_GPIOS to
> the number we want in IMX platform headers.

Don't do that.  CONFIG_ARCH_NR_GPIO is there so that we can consolidate
out as much crap from mach/gpio.h as possible.  Either use it now, or I
will patch you to make you use it.  Either way, you will end up using
it... :)