linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] gpio: pcf857x: Get rid of legacy platform data

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaEJV59myaH44aJMZrLUe5xEw98Q=jVnVbEUgMT6xMsgw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:00:06 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] gpio: pcf857x: Get rid of legacy platform data

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 1:46 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Platform data is a legacy interface to supply device properties
> to the driver. In this case we don't have in-kernel users for it.
> Moreover it uses plain GPIO numbers which is no-no for a new code.
>
> Just remove it for good.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

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

Yours,
Linus Walleij