linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] gpio: mlxbf3: Support add_pin

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2023 23:37:04 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@...dia.com>,
        "andy.shevchenko@...il.com" <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bgolaszewski@...libre.com" <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] gpio: mlxbf3: Support add_pin_ranges()

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 5:04 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 2:55 PM Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@...dia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > +MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: pinctrl-mlxbf3");
> > > >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NVIDIA BlueField-3 GPIO Driver");
> > > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@...dia.com>");
> > > > MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> > > > --
> > > > 2.30.1
> > > >
> > >
> > > It's not clear to me whether this depends on patch 1? If only at run-time then I
> > > guess Linus and I can take the two patches through ours respective trees?
> >
> > Indeed from a build point of view, there is no dependency so you could take the 2 patches through your respective tree. However, at run-time, the gpio-mlxbf3.c driver fails to load without the pinctrl-mlxbf3.c driver. Should I add a "depends on" in the Kconfig? Then you will have to include both patches in your tree.
> >
>
> Linus, are you fine with me taking this patch? It will not break the
> build and with you taking the other one, next will be fine too.

Yep pick this one, I applied 1/2 to the pinctrl tree now.

Yours,
Linus Walleij