[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 024/108] ARM: dts: imx25-pinfunc: Fix gpio function name for pads GPIO_[A-F]

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 04:59:21PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:35:50PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 03:36:36PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit e0cdd26af8eb9001689a4cde4f72c61c1c4b06be ]
> > > 
> > > The pinfunc definitions used GPIO_A as function instead of GPIO_1_0 as
> > > done for all the other pins with GPIO functionality. Fix for consistency.
> > > 
> > > There are no mainline users that needs adaption.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
> > 
> > I'm not convinced it's a good idea to take this patch for stable.
> > in-tree users are unaffected and the only effect this can have on
> > out-of-tree users is to break them. So the gain of having this is not
> > positive.
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> Hm, if those definitions don't have an in-tree users, why are they still
> around to begin with?

It's hardware description and out-of-tree dts might make use of it. Even
if no in-tree user benefits, it's IMO better to have this included, but
I admit you could judge differently here.

Best regards
Uwe

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