linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add a keyword entry for the GPIO subsystem

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYeYLzF00Oa8QNo6MjcbyKdk4L=CE-a+8CXMK5soiUCXg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:27:07 +0200
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add a keyword entry for the GPIO subsystem

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 9:18 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
> Every now and then - despite being clearly documented as deprecated -
> the legacy GPIO API is being used in some new drivers in the kernel. Add
> a keyword pattern matching the unwanted functions so that I get Cc'ed
> anytime they're being used and get the chance to object.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>

Excellent idea. I had to patch out *new* users of the legacy
API in the last merge window. :/
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij