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From: timur@codeaurora.org (Timur Tabi)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:09:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] [v5] pinctrl: qcom: add support for sparse GPIOs
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On 10/15/17 3:18 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> This confuses me. Why would you even want to register pins that don't
> exist? It sounds to me like you're lying to gpiolib and then try to work
> around it trying to access the GPIOs that don't exist but which you told
> it were there.
> 
> Why not just tell gpiolib about only the GPIOs that exist?

Please look at my patches.  That's exactly what they do, but no one else 
likes that approach.

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