Re: [GIT PULL] gpio updates for v7.3-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Bartosz,

On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 at 10:13, Bartosz Golaszewski
<bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sending my pull-request earlier as I'll be mostly OoO until September.
>
> There's one new driver for the Realtek DHC RTD1625 GPIO controller. If adding
> it, reverting it and then adding it again raises your eyebrow: this was done
> becuase the initial implementation - while correct - didn't use the gpio-regmap
> abstraction that suited it nicely. The conversion was done after I had already
> merged v7.2-rc2 into my tree so instead of rebasing, I went with a revert.
>
> The merges you see - other than pulling in your upstream tags with conflicting
> fixes - are for a PR from Arnd containing his work on further isolating legacy
> GPIO APIs and the fw_devlink support for software nodes that will go upstream
> via the driver core tree.

Still, there is a remaining conflict due to

> Alex Tran (1):
>       gpio: gpio-by-pinctrl: Apply initial value in direction output wrapper

being v3 of a fix where v2 made it in v7.2-rc6.
Note that I believe the resolution in next-20260817 is incorrect:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/anyjJ6DSHWCjuB97@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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