Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: starfive: fix missing CONFIG_OF dependencies

From: Changhuang Liang

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 10:39:20 EST


Hi, Arnd

Thanks for your patch.

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The common driver portion requires CONFIG_OF, but the drivers selecting it
> do not, so we get random warnings:
>
> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for
> PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100
> Depends on [n]: PINCTRL [=y] && OF [=n]
> Selected by [y]:
> - PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_PER1 [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] &&
> (ARCH_STARFIVE || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> - PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_PER2POK [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] &&
> (ARCH_STARFIVE || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> - PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_SYS1 [=y] && PINCTRL [=y] &&
> (ARCH_STARFIVE || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> Selected by [m]:
> - PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_PER0 [=m] && PINCTRL [=y] &&
> (ARCH_STARFIVE || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
> - PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_SYS0 [=m] && PINCTRL [=y] &&
> (ARCH_STARFIVE || COMPILE_TEST [=y])
>
> Apparently the problem is selecting CONFIG_OF_GPIO, which is a mistake the
> newly added driver copied from others. This was recently cleaned up with
> commit e785c990adcc ("pinctrl: Kconfig: drop unneeded dependencies on
> OF_GPIO"). Do the same here for consistency and to avoid the warning.
>
> Fixes: 9c4d0c8fc4c1 ("pinctrl: starfive: Add StarFive JHB100 sys0 controller
> driver")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Changhuang Liang <changhuang.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/pinctrl/starfive/Kconfig | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/starfive/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/starfive/Kconfig
> index 11bd429b45b7..7ff506a15dd8 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/starfive/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/starfive/Kconfig
> @@ -50,11 +50,9 @@ config PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JH7110_AON
>
> config PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100
> bool
> - depends on OF
> select GENERIC_PINCTRL
> select GPIOLIB
> select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
> - select OF_GPIO
>
> config PINCTRL_STARFIVE_JHB100_PER0
> tristate "StarFive JHB100 SoC Peripheral-0 pinctrl and GPIO driver"
> --
> 2.53.0

Best Regards
Changhuang