Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] gpio: syscon: allow fetching syscon from parent node

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Jun 08 2018 - 03:55:05 EST


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:27 AM, <djw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Syscon nodes can be a simple-mfd and the syscon-users then be declared
> as children of this node. That way the parent-child structure can be
> better represented for devices that are fully embedded in the syscon.
>
> Therefore allow getting the syscon from the parent if neither
> a special compatible nor a gpio,syscon-dev property is defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Levin Du <djw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been sent upstream for v4.18.

Yours,
Linus Walleij