linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Revert "pinctrl: avoid unsafe code pattern in find

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Message-ID: <ZS9mo4/jnRNoTE+v@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:01:23 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ferry Toth <ftoth@...londelft.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Revert "pinctrl: avoid unsafe code pattern in
 find_pinctrl()"

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:43:01PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 10:45:39PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

Thanks for your response.

...

> I wonder, could you please post entire dmesg for your system?

Working, non-working or both?

...

> I think the right answer is "fix the userspace" really in this case. We
> could also try extend of_alias_get_id() to see if we could pass some
> preferred numbering on x86. But this will again be fragile if the
> knowledge resides in the driver and is not tied to a particular board
> (as it is in DT case): there could be multiple controllers, things will
> be shifting board to board...

Any suggestion how should it be properly done in the minimum shell environment?
(Busybox uses mdev with static tables IIRC and there is no fancy udev or so)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko