Re: [RFC PATCH] gpio: add GPIO hogging mechanism

Ben Gamari
2014-09-20T22:27:03Z

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Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Boris,
>
> I'm just returning to this now.
>
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
>
>> I don't understand what makes GPIO's "special" enough to get included in
>> the driver core like this, and called for each and every device that is
>> added to the system.
>>
> I'm also a bit confused why GPIOs ended up in the driver core but
> perhaps I'm missing something. What was your motivation here?
>
Somehow I overlooked the message in which you responded to this. Ignore
the above.

Cheers,

- Ben

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