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

Bartosz Golaszewski brgl at bgdev.pl
Tue Sep 2 23:44:17 AEST 2025


On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 14:05:10 +0200, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy at csgroup.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 at bgdev.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>

Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>


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