Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751460Ab0AGRZW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:25:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751196Ab0AGRZU (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:25:20 -0500 Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([93.97.175.187]:61829 "EHLO dan.rpsys.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064Ab0AGRZT (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:25:19 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc3 regression: leds_alix2: can't allocate I/O for GPIO From: Richard Purdie To: Arnd Hannemann Cc: Daniel Mack , Arnd Hannemann , LKML , "linux-geode@lists.infradead.org" In-Reply-To: <4B45E905.7040401@nets.rwth-aachen.de> References: <4B45B6DD.4060903@nets.rwth-aachen.de> <1262861484.8493.14.camel@dax.rpnet.com> <4B45CC4C.4030603@nets.rwth-aachen.de> <4B45CF73.9090304@nets.rwth-aachen.de> <20100107124630.GU28375@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <4B45E905.7040401@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:27:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1262885241.27762.1.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 30 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? Cheers, Richard -- Richard Purdie Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/