linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] powerpc/8xx: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header

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Message-ID: <Z1xp1xwLXAvkKgwD@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:07:35 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
	Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] powerpc/8xx: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:28:45AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 12/12/2024 à 17:24, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 03:10:09PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > > Le 18/11/2024 à 13:31, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> > > > Remove legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header file. The above mentioned
> > > > file provides an OF API that's deprecated. There is no agnostic
> > > > alternatives to it and we have to open code the logic which was
> > > > hidden behind of_mm_gpiochip_add_data(). Note, most of the GPIO
> > > > drivers are using their own labeling schemas and resource retrieval
> > > > that only a few may gain of the code deduplication, so whenever
> > > > alternative is appear we can move drivers again to use that one.
> > > > 
> > > > As a side effect this change fixes a potential memory leak on
> > > > an error path, if of_mm_gpiochip_add_data() fails.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
> > 
> > Thanks, what's next?
> 
> Next step is that Michael or Madhavan apply it I guess ?

Folks, do you have any comments? Can you apply this and we move forward towards
removing the legacy API from the kernel?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko