[PATCH 1/7] gpio: mxc: Support initialization as subdevice
Markus Pargmann
mpa at pengutronix.de
Fri Aug 9 13:56:11 EDT 2013
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> > On imx27 and imx21, there is no clear seperation between iomux control
> > registers and GPIO data registers. For easier pingroup definitions, the
> > gpio drivers will be initialized as subnodes of the iomux controller. It
> > is necessary to share the registers between iomux and gpio.
> >
> > This patch adds support to pass a register memory region via platform
> > data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
>
> I think you have misunderstood that it is perfectly legal for
> several drivers to remap the same memory range. I think
> you should just drop this quirk and happily remap the memory
> in both drivers.
Yes, thank you, I didn't know that is possible. Fixed.
Regards,
Markus
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