linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] gpio: davinci: restore a way to manually specify the GPIO base

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:19:25 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     "Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar@...com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gpio: davinci: restore a way to manually specify the
 GPIO base

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:51 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>
> Commit 587f7a694f01 ("gpio: davinci: Use dev name for label and
> automatic base selection") broke the network support in legacy boot
> mode for da850-evm since we can no longer request the MDIO clock GPIO.
>
> Other boards may be broken too, which I haven't tested.
>
> The problem is in the fact that most board files still use the legacy
> GPIO API where lines are requested by numbers rather than descriptors.
>
> While this should be fixed eventually, in order to unbreak the board
> for now - provide a way to manually specify the GPIO base in platform
> data.
>
> Fixes: 587f7a694f01 ("gpio: davinci: Use dev name for label and automatic base selection")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

I guess this will be merged throug ARM SoC?

Yours,
Linus Walleij