Re: [PATCH] USB: gadget: stop propagating controller OF nodes

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 04:53:50PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Some UDC drivers propagate the controller OF node to the gadget device
> but there are no (and has never been any) users of this as the
> devicetree binding and composite driver support was never merged. [1]
> 
> Drop the unused and incomplete support for OF node propagation which if
> ever needed should be handled by UDC core.
> 
> Note that this also avoids probe failures when reusing an OF node that
> describe resources like pinctrl that are managed by driver core (cf.
> commit 48ed32482c41 ("usb: gadget: aspeed: Fix probe regression")).
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1340720833-781-1-git-send-email-aletes.xgr@xxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> This was something I stumbled over when fixing a couple of gadget device
> name leaks. This one applies on top of those fixes:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260702141536.90887-1-johan@xxxxxxxxxx/

These fixes are now in 7.2-rc5 (and usb-next) so can this one be picked
up for 7.3?

Let me know if you prefer a resend.

>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/aspeed-vhub/dev.c | 2 --
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/aspeed_udc.c      | 1 -
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/at91_udc.c        | 1 -
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bcm63xx_udc.c     | 1 -
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fsl_udc_core.c    | 3 ---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/lpc32xx_udc.c     | 1 -
>  6 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

Johan