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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] of/gpio: Add support for two-stage registration for the of_gpio_chips
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:02:43 -0800
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Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
       David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
       "Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov" <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
> > Why have two options, instead of just the first/simpler one??
> 
> Because I2C/SPI drivers allocate (and register) gpio_chip structures
> by themselves, so the first option is a no-go.

You should be mentioning such issues in the patch comments.
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