[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: Make RESET_GPIO driver built-in

Philipp Zabel p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Wed Nov 5 01:50:44 PST 2025


On Mo, 2025-11-03 at 15:51 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 03/11/2025 15:06, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > Commit 25d4d4604d01 ("reset: always bail out on missing RESET_GPIO
> > driver") reworked GPIO-based reset controller initialization, so now
> > RESET_GPIO driver is required to properly instantiate MMC device for
> > most of WLAN and SDIO chips. Make the driver built-in.
> 
> 
> Huh? I don't recall the final consensus over RESET_GPIO but I had
> impression that patch was wrong and should not be merged.
> 
> Was the consensus to break all possible platforms? What!?!?

I was too focused on the case where no reset-gpios are specified being
handled correctly, and didn't realize that 25d4d4604d01 breaks driver
side fallback to GPIO API if reset-gpios are specified but RESET_GPIO
is disabled.

> Can't we just revert 25d4d4604d01 because apparently it was not tested
> properly?

I just sent a revert [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251105093920.2345333-1-p.zabel@pengutronix.de/

regards
Philipp



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