Increase ARCH_NR_GPIO for ARCH_ASPEED?

[Tao Ren]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for looking into the issue.

On 2/24/19 5:55 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, at 11:25, Tao Ren wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On 2/19/19 4:15 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, at 10:43, Tao Ren wrote:
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>> Manually editing "ARCH_NR_GPIO" in <platform>.cfg doesn't work because 
>> ARCH_NR_GPIO symbol is "invisible" and user defined value will be 
>> ignored by "scripts/kconfig/conf". I compared a few other ways to 
>> fix/workaround the issue, but IMHO, increasing default ARCH_NR_GPIO for 
>> ARCH_ASPEED is better than other solutions. Please suggest.
> 
> Hrm. That's really unfortunate. Can you patch it in on your platform for the
> moment? We're going to have to come up with some more long term strategy.
> Whether that's making the symbol visible or migrating everyone off sysfs
> (which they should be doing anyway) I'm not sure. If we don't do either of
> those then I think we're going to have to audit userspace to find what will
> break.

Make sense. I will keep the patch in my local tree as of now.

>> BTW, "CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS=y" in 
>> meta-aspeed/recipes-kernel/linux/ast2500/defconfig is not included in 
>> the final .config because its dependency option PLUGIN_HOSTCC is not 
>> set.
> 
> Can you open an issue in https://github.com/openbmc/linux ?

Sure. Opened issue https://github.com/openbmc/linux/issues/170


Cheers,

- Tao