Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: pxa: attach software nodes to the GPIO controllers

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 11:11 AM Bartosz Golaszewski
<bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was looking for a use-case where automatic secondary fwnode assignment
> would make sense for a DT platform. With the paz00 issue having been
> addressed by Dmitry, PXA looked like the last one that could match the
> idea but it turned out that we can just easily attach the software nodes
> to their controllers enabling fwnode lookup of GPIOs.
>
> After that the only GPIO consumers that still use label lookup with
> dangling software nodes are ACPI platform devices and a single PCI
> use-case. In that case, I won't be doing anything OF-related and will
> limit the x86 tablets series to an ACPI-centric solution.
>
> With that being said: here's a series attaching software nodes to GPIO
> controllers on the PXA platform. Since everything happens in a
> bord-file, it's quite straightforward.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This makes things better, thanks!
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij