Re: [PATCH 0/5] gpiolib: Handle immutable irq_chip structures

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:35 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm happy with this approach as long as the 300+ drivers get fixed
> > and the old way of doing it gets deleted.
>
> Of course. Note that it will take some time before it actually happens.
> My current plan is to stick in a pr_warn() each time a driver
> following the old scheme gets registered, as a nudge for people to
> update their driver if they care about it.

Fair enough, we have a bunch of those WIP churn tasks in
GPIO anyways.

What about adding a blurb to:
drivers/gpio/TODO
so we have it on the radar?

> Regarding documentation, are you OK with me simply replacing the
> current code samples with the new approach? It will at least avoid
> giving people the wrong idea. I also want to write a brief migration
> guide that people willing to bump up their patch count can follow.

Yup

> I'll repost something once -rc1 is out.

Sounds good!

Yours,
Linus Walleij