[PATCH RFC 0/9] gpio: improve support for shared GPIOs

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 03:13:29PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM Srinivas Kandagatla <srini at kernel.org> wrote:
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> > > Yes, these codec drivers are due to be moved to use reset-gpios.
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> ...
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> > anything. And what about shared pins other than reset? 'dc-gpios' for
> > display, other 'powerdown' instances, 'enable-gpios', all kinds of
> > uncommon names like: `dlg,cs`, `wlf,ldo2ena`, `speaker-enable`,
> > `maxim,enable`? It's not likely we will create a separate abstraction
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> Many of which, crucially, don't actually reset the device.

That's my point. While the function of a `reset-gpios` is quite clear,
these are not.

Bartosz