linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 0/3] fsl,imx6q-pcie: Remove the deprecated "reset-gpio-active-high" property

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:02:08 +0000
From: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@....com>
To: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>, Andy Shevchenko
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/3] fsl,imx6q-pcie: Remove the deprecated
 "reset-gpio-active-high" property



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 4:11 PM
> To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>; Sherry Sun
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fsl,imx6q-pcie: Remove the deprecated "reset-gpio-
> active-high" property
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:34:18AM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 03:18:13PM +0800, Sherry Sun wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > And , the property is still handled, see commit b8b80348c57b
> > > ("gpiolib: of: add polarity quirk for Freescale PCIe controller"),
> > > the DT compatibility was not broken as you seem to imply in this series.
> >
> > This is a quirk and not a 1st class support. There must be no such
> > property in new DTs, it's only present for the backward compatibility.
> >
> > For the old ones, indeed the property is needed.
> 
> Ack, we just agree here.

Sorry, my bad, I didn't notice there is a hack for this property in gpiolib,
Not sure the history for adding this, but anyway, we should not break the old boards.
Maybe we can simply mark this property as deprecated.

Best Regards
Sherry