Re: [PATCH v1] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for "gpio" and "gpios" binding
From: Saravana Kannan <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-18 22:14:46
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From: Saravana Kannan <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-18 22:14:46
Also in:
linux-tegra, lkml
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 7:32 AM Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:02 PM Saravana Kannan [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
To provide backward compatibility for boards that use deprecated DT bindings, we need to add fw_devlink support for "gpio" and "gpios". Cc: linux-tegra <redacted> Cc: Linus Walleij <redacted> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Fixes: e590474768f1 ("driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default") Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <redacted>"gpios" is a valid non legacy property I think.
I checked :) Quoting the documentation [1]: "While a non-existent <name> is considered valid for compatibility reasons (resolving to the "gpios" property), it is not allowed for new bindings." [1] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt#n8
Anyways: Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
Thanks! Greg/Rob, Can we pull this into driver-core-next please? It fixes issues on some boards with fw_devlink=on. -Saravana