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

Ben Gamari
2014-09-20T21:37:27Z

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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?

Cheers,

- Ben

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