Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: lpc_ich: expose the GPIO controller cell's software node
From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 05:55:40 EST
On Fri, 06 Mar 2026, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 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?
Are there dependencies between the two patches?
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Lee Jones [李琼斯]