linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] gpiolib: Do not unexport GPIO on freeing

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jun 2023 19:29:00 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] gpiolib: Do not unexport GPIO on freeing

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 07:22:58PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Since the legacy exporting is gone with 2f804aca4832 ("gpiolib:
> Kill unused GPIOF_EXPORT and Co") there is no need to unexport
> GPIO on freeing. Remove that call.
> 
> Note, the other users of this functionality do that explicitly,
> except one SH boardfile which doesn't free GPIO anyways, so it
> is safe to drop the call.

Note, that this might be squashed with the above mentioned commit, because
I haven't checked current users I didn't do the removal in that patch.

But this will probably needs rebase which is not good thing process wise.
So, just my 2 cents in case.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko