From 9c556fe73ea4d6edcddd08fbaf0fee27d810963f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 15:10:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ar71xx: register the gpio driver earlier

This allows gpio requests from mach files to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
 .../004-register_gpio_driver_earlier.patch        | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.4/004-register_gpio_driver_earlier.patch

diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.4/004-register_gpio_driver_earlier.patch b/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.4/004-register_gpio_driver_earlier.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c07cb18c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.4/004-register_gpio_driver_earlier.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+HACK: register the GPIO driver earlier to ensure that gpio_request calls
+from mach files succeed.
+
+--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c
++++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c
+@@ -202,4 +202,8 @@ static struct platform_driver ath79_gpio
+ 	.probe = ath79_gpio_probe,
+ };
+ 
+-module_platform_driver(ath79_gpio_driver);
++static int __init ath79_gpio_init(void)
++{
++	return platform_driver_register(&ath79_gpio_driver);
++}
++postcore_initcall(ath79_gpio_init);
-- 
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