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

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Message-ID: <629f23f0-5b2a-4d6f-a047-41bf2fc9daf4@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:12:29 +0530
From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: 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 12/13/24 11:58 AM, 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?
>>

Yes, will take this via powerpc tree

Maddy

> 
> Next step is that Michael or Madhavan apply it I guess ?
> 
> Christophe