[PATCH 1/1] pinctrl: sunxi: add GPIO get_direction callback

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:08 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:

> thanks for taking care and sending a patch! I am still scratching my
> head what this warning is about exactly and why we only see this now? I
> never saw this, so what caused that? libgpiod accesses from userland?

I don't understand that either.

> Regardless, can we hold back this patch, please? As part of the A733
> pinctrl support (and as LinusW asked kindly about that) I was reworking
> our driver to use the generic gpio interface, and I have a feeling this
> would solve this problem automatically?
> The actual pinctrl conversion is done, I just need to plug in the IRQ
> support. I ideally would have something in the next days to post, would
> that be worth waiting for?

We are early in the v7.1 development cycle, so we certainly have
time for this to materialize and figure out how to consolidate all
of the new development.

Yours,
Linus Walleij