linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] gpiolib: of: remove of_get_gpio[_flags]() and of_get_named_gpio

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Message-ID: <Y6H+8vss7YPgOrMF@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:29:06 -0800
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] gpiolib: of: remove of_get_gpio[_flags]() and
 of_get_named_gpio_flags()

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 03:58:11PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:20:15AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > There are no more users of these APIs in the mainline kernel, remove
> > them. This leaves of_get_named_gpio() as the only legacy OF-specific
> > API.
> 
> ...
> 
> > -	desc = of_get_named_gpiod_flags(np, list_name, index, flags);
> > +	desc = of_get_named_gpiod_flags(np, propname, index, NULL);
> 
> I didn't get it. The commit message and the subject says there are no more
> users of these APIs, why is it still here? How is it compiled?

gpio vs gpiod strikes again ;) We are removing
of_get_named_gpio_flags(), but of_get_named_gpiod_flags() is a local
helper in gpiolib-of.c and is still very much in use there and I have no
plans removing it.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry