[PATCH v2 1/1] powerpc/8xx: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Sat Dec 14 05:01:42 AEDT 2024
Le 13/12/2024 à 18:07, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:28:45AM +0100, 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 at linux.intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
>>>
>>> Thanks, what's next?
>>
>> Next step is that Michael or Madhavan apply it I guess ?
>
> Folks, do you have any comments? Can you apply this and we move forward towards
> removing the legacy API from the kernel?
>
If you have some work which depends on this patch, you can also take it
together with that work through another tree. Just let us know.
Acked-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
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