gps powercontrol

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> 			Hi,
>
> On 09/08/2011 10:36, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > [...]
> > commit 899b847b17bae46556fcbe010e9bba355cd0c5f7
> > Author: Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>
> > Date:   Sat Jan 31 17:23:30 2009 +0000
> >
> >     [...]
> >     Unlike u-boot, qi didn't initialize the GPIOs. With this patch is
> >     does.
> >
> > Should this just be reverted?
>
> I apologize for my ignorance in this area, but shouldn't this fix belong
> to the kernel instead?

Standard practice is to put low-level board init to bootloader, not to the 
kernel.

Kernel supports very large number of boards and devices; putting lowlevel 
init for each one into the kernel will bloat the kernel with unsupportable 
code without any gain.