On 08/09/2012 02:55 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:13:17PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > >> If the board needs the gpo driver, but in the driver(s) I need to check for >> the existence of the "ti,twl6040-gpo" node and check if the status is "okay". >> I think it is easier to just get the value of "ti,use-gpo", if it exist and >> it >> is 1 I enable the GPIO driver otherwise I don't. > > Will having the GPIO driver actually cause any problems if it's not in > use? It's not like things like RTC which are directly visible to > userspace and so can create problems if they're non-functional, unless > it does something like grab resources that might be needed by another > subfunction driver there's not really a substantial cost in just > instantiating it (people who are really space pressured probably won't > build the driver in in the first place).
Fair enough, I'll make the change for the v2. -- Péter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
