linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] soc: fsl: qe: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header from GPIO driver

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=MfwNr+B-gxkN4ApGX5-k-0=aH=03Aw==WHVSYydy+iHkg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 09:44:17 -0400
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>, 
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] soc: fsl: qe: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header
 from GPIO driver

On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 14:05:10 +0200, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> said:
> 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.
>
> [Text copied from commit 34064c8267a6 ("powerpc/8xx: Drop
> legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header")]
>
> Suggested-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>

Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>