[RFC PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: convert to GPIO_GENERIC

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:

> Hi Bartosz, Linus,
>
> so I wanted to come back to this, posting a A733 v2, with this patch
> included, and was wondering what the consensus on this matter would be?
(...)
> So personally I am leaning towards doing the change: most users can
> typically adapt - or they don't care because they don't update their
> kernels (beyond stable revisions). And to address the naming
> ambiguities, we could push for more gpio-line-names. That would make
> finding a GPIO much safer and easier, and works either way.

I agree.

> But if this patch's ABI breakage is a showstopper, I would need to know,
> so that I can rebase the A733 pinctrl patches without this one being the
> first patch in the series.

I am *FOR* this change.

Wikipedia has some policy like "avoid copyright paranoia", and
some days I feel we need an "avoid ABI paranoia" policy.
Rough consensus and running code.

Yours,
Linus Walleij