netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/21] gpiolib: fence off legacy interfaces

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:10:31 -0700
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] gpiolib: fence off legacy interfaces

On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 17:17:44 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> said:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> Commit 678bae2eaa81 ("gpiolib: make legacy interfaces optional") was
> merged for linux-6.17, so now it is possible to use the legacy interfaces
> conditionally and eventually have the support left out of the kernel
> whenever it is not needed.
>
> I created six patches to force-enable CONFIG_GPIOLIB_LEGACY on the
> few (mostly ancient) platforms that still require this, plus a set of
> patches to either add the corresponding Kconfig dependencies that make
> the device drivers conditional on that symbol, or change them to no
> longer require it.
>
> The final patch ends up turning the Kconfig symbol off by default,
> which of course depends on everything else getting merged first to avoid
> build errors.
>
> I would suggest that patches 1-20 can just get merged through the
> respective maintainer trees independently when they are deemed ready,
> and the final patch can wait another merge window.
>

Oh, not at all, I'm fine sending a second PR late into the merge window to
get that done in a single cycle.

Thanks for doing this, awesome work!

Bartosz