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

[Daniel Mack]

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