Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: lpc_ich: expose the GPIO controller cell's software node

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Fri Mar 06 2026 - 08:37:15 EST


On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:48:01 +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > One of the users of this driver - meraki-mx100 - abuses the software
> > node API by setting up a dummy software node without any logical link to
> > this GPIO controller and uses the fact that the GPIO core matches the
> > controller's label against the swnode's name to make the lookup work.
> >
> > We want to remove this behavior from GPIOLIB in favor of actual matching
> > of firmware nodes but that would break this user. To facilitate that:
> > create a software node for the GPIO controller cell and expose its
> > address in the provided MFD header.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> [1/2] mfd: lpc_ich: expose the GPIO controller cell's software node
> commit: a64ee7d8ddd6e04d82c06238a238b7877cbc35fc
>
> --
> Lee Jones [李琼斯]
>

Hi Lee!

Can you pick up patch 2/2 as well as per Ilpo's response and Ack?

Bart