2.6.33-rc3 regression: leds_alix2: can't allocate I/O for GPIO

Arnd Hannemann hannemann at nets.rwth-aachen.de
Fri Jan 8 03:32:33 EST 2010


Daniel Mack schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:27:21PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:00 +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>>> Daniel Mack schrieb:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:11:31PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>>>>> Arnd Hannemann schrieb:
>>>>> Oh, maybe using cs5535_gpio AND leds_alix2 together was never supposed to work?
>>>> That is the problem indeed. The problem is that three of these GPIOs are
>>>> connected to LEDs, so if both drivers are enabled, they will both alter
>>>> the same GPIOs. Hmm, don't know how to handle this. Maybe the LED driver
>>>> should use the GPIO interface and that's it?
>>> I'm not sure that this configuration needs to be supported at all,
>>> so disallowing that both drivers are configured via Kconfig could be a simple solution.
>> Agreed, Kconfig dependencies for this until the code is improved look
>> like the best option. Does someone want to send me a patch?
> 
> Does the one below look ok?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> From ebb89d7d1908e85587f3e64bcea0dd77a92cc744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Mack <daniel at caiaq.de>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 02:22:10 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] LEDS: ALIX2: Add dependency to !GPIO_CS5335
> 
> The ALIX2 LED driver and the CS5535 GPIO driver share the same I/O
> range which causes a conflict if they're both enabled. Fix this for now
> by adding a Kconfig dependency. While at it, also drop the EXPERIMENTAL
> flag, as the code has been around for awhile already.
> 
> Note that this is a hack. At some point, a real platform support for
> this board should be added which handles the LEDs via the leds-gpio
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel at caiaq.de>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net>
> Cc: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann at nets.rwth-aachen.de>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> index 8a0e1ec..7f292ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ config LEDS_WRAP
>  
>  config LEDS_ALIX2
>  	tristate "LED Support for ALIX.2 and ALIX.3 series"
> -	depends on LEDS_CLASS && X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	depends on LEDS_CLASS && X86 && !GPIO_CS5535

You should add && !CS5535_GPIO, too. In fact CS5535_GPIO
was the one that I had issues with. Though, I wonder why
there are multiple drivers... Buts thats another issue.

>  	help
>  	  This option enables support for the PCEngines ALIX.2 and ALIX.3 LEDs.
>  	  You have to set leds-alix2.force=1 for boards with Award BIOS.

Best regards,
Arnd



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