[PATCH 2/4] gpio/mxc: specify gpio base for device tree probe

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 02:01:26PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> Currently, unlike the non-DT probe where the gpio base is specified
> with pdev->id, the DT probe uses the base dynamically allocated by
> gpio core, which uses a completely different numbering scheme.  This
> causes two issues to user space applications which access sysfs entry
> /sys/class/gpio/gpioN.
> 
> * It breaks the compatibility with user space applications between
>   non-DT and DT kernels.
> 
> * It's not intuitive and sometimes hard for users to map the Linux
>   gpio number to the actual hardware pin.
> 
> Use alias to identify the gpio port/bank, and then the gpio base
> can be specified with port id to solve above issues.  If alias is not
> defined in device tree, the base number dynamically allocated by gpio
> core will be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
I applied patches 1, 2 and 4 to my imx35 dt tree and they work like a
charm.

Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

for these three.

Thanks
Uwe

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