linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: TODO: add a task for removing MMIO-specific fields from gpio

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Message-ID: <CACRpkda5UOqav7Ew-UJ4zPH6xpmrDNg4GmHawKfNr8Cf2rJANA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 20:56:12 +0200
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: TODO: add a task for removing MMIO-specific fields
 from gpio_chip

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
> Currently for CONFIG_GPIO_GENERIC=y each struct gpio_chip object
> contains the fields relevant only for gpio-mmio users. It's not an
> insignificant number either as it's several pointers and integers.
>
> It makes sense to remove these fields from struct gpio_chip into a
> dedicated structure but this is not trivial due to how the bgpio_init()
> function is implemented.
>
> Add a task for tracking this rework.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>

That's a good TODO.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij