[RFC PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: convert to GPIO_GENERIC

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 23:25:16 +0200, Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org> said:
> 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.
>

Agreed. Let's do this.

Bart