[PATCH v2 0/9] gpiolib: more quirks to handle legacy names

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Oct 17 03:09:01 PDT 2022


On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 7:54 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:

> In preparation to converting several drivers to gpiod API, and to keep
> existing DTS working, this series adds additional quirks to locate
> gpio lines with legacy names.
>
> Additionally the quirk handling has been reworked (once again) to pull
> all simple renames (ones that do not involve change of indices or other
> complex manipulations) into a single quirk with a table containing
> transformations. This should make adding new quirks easier.
> When using legacy names gpiolib will emit a message to nudge users to
> update DTSes (when possible).
>
> Note that the last patch requires the following change from the OF tree:
>
>         88269151be67 ("of: base: make of_device_compatible_match() accept const device node")
>
> The change is also available in mainline - it has been merged in 6.1
> merge window.

The series:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours.
Linus Walleij



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