linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: st: stop abusing of_get_named

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Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2022 09:59:04 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...s.st.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: st: stop abusing of_get_named_gpio()

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:20 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:

> Pin descriptions for this chip only look like standard GPIO device tree
> descriptions, while in fact they contain additional data (in excess of
> number of cells specified in description of gpio controllers). They also
> refer to only pins/gpios belonging to the driver and not to arbitrary
> gpio in the system.
>
> Because we want to stop exporting OF-specific handlers from gpiolib-of,
> let's parse the pin reference ourself instead of trying to call
> of_get_named_gpio().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Excellent work as usual, patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij