Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] gpio: Introduce helper to dispose IRQ mappings
From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Oct 22 2026 - 10:06:16 EST
On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:32:44 +0200, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 02:11:38AM -0700, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:44:42 +0200, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> > I have noticed that a few drivers use almost the same code to dispose IRQ
>> > mappings. This series to deduplicate the efforts. I only converted a couple
>> > of the users (there are potentially more) in order to stay in the same
>> > subsystem.
>> The "few" being 2 testing drivers of which one (mockup) should ideally go away.
>> Do we really want to add more code to GPIO core that will only be used in
>> testing module(s)? I don't think this is useful, sorry.
>
> I meant a few. As I pointed these were chosen explicitly for the sake of not
> crossing the subsystem boundaries. I looked at Broadcom one, it is so big mess
> but I think I can get an advantage on it. Also there are other drivers that
> just need more work to check (and many of them are outside of drivers/gpio),
> but I'm pretty sure the new API has a good potential.
>
Would it be possible to provide at least one more user other than the testing
drivers?
Bart