Hello Linus

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:40:49PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:44 PM Andy Shevchenko
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 03:44:33PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:

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Thus, yes, I think we need to make sure here that the property
is only used in framework of the kernel and isn't passed via
inappropriate paths like DT/ACPI fw so not to get into the
maintainability troubles in future.

Got it. I'll add the additional check in next version.

This seems reasonable for me, if you can get this done with
some kind of elegance.

There is v2 of this series has already been posted:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20210804160019.77105-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/ (local)
with the denoted concern taken into account. 

-Sergey

Maybe use the "linux,gpio-base" property as mentioned so it is
clear that this is a Linux-internal thing only.

Yours,
Linus Walleij