From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely)
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:45:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v7 06/15] gpio: find gpio base by ascend order
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:31:10 +0800, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> wrote:
> gpiochip_find_base() always tries to find valid gpio with descend order.
> It's inconvient if gpio information is passing from DTS. Now try to find
> valid gpio with ascend order.

Why is it more convenient? Just to make the numbers smaller? The reason
it uses a descending search is to mimimize the possibility of collision
with fixed GPIO numbers.

g.