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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:04 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > So if we register the board infos after 
> > the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos.
> 
> See above.  If you're doing it right, there's no problem.
> That is, scan the OF tables early.  Just like PNP tables
> get scanned early, for example.

It's still pretty yucky in that case to scan the device-tree to convert
it into some kind of fugly board info ... I'd rather have the end
drivers that actually use those GPIOs scan the device-tree directly.

But then, I'm not a believer in generic drivers for things like GPIOs,
i2c devices, etc.. :-)

Ben.