(subset) [PATCH 0/4] gpio: mxc: silence warning about GPIO base being statically allocated

Bartosz Golaszewski brgl at bgdev.pl
Thu Jan 23 00:06:33 PST 2025


From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>


On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:19:08 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The i.MX GPIO driver has had deterministic numbering for the GPIOs
> for more than 12 years.
> 
> Reverting this to dynamically numbered will break existing setups in the
> worst manner possible: The build will succeed, the kernel will not print
> warnings, but users will find their devices essentially toggling GPIOs
> at random with the potential of permanent damage. We thus want to keep
> the numbering as-is until the SysFS API is removed and script fail
> instead of toggling GPIOs dependent on probe order.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[3/4] gpio: mxc: remove dead code after switch to DT-only
      commit: b049e7abe9001a780d58e78e3833dcceee22f396

Best regards,
-- 
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>



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