Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] gpiolib: more quirks to handle legacy names

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 2:32 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:41:01PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > In preparation to converting several drivers to gpiod API, and to keep
> > existing DTS working, this series adds additional quirks to locate
> > gpio lines with legacy names.
> >
> > Additionally the quirk handling has been reworked (once again) to pull
> > all simple renames (ones that do not involve change of indices or other
> > complex manipulations) into a single quirk with a table containing
> > transformations. This should make adding new quirks easier.
> > When using legacy names gpiolib will emit a message to nudge users to
> > update DTSes (when possible).
> >
> > Note that the last patch requires the following change from the OF tree:
> >
> >         88269151be67 ("of: base: make of_device_compatible_match() accept const device node")
> >
> > The change is also available in mainline - it has been merged in 6.1
> > merge window.
>
> I was wondering if we can use the approach that ACPI chose for itself,
> i.e.  the separate data that can be filled by the corresponding driver
> and then GPIO OF common code may use it. In that case each driver knows
> the exact list of compatible strings and associated quirks.

I actually deliverately chose the other way around, to centralize all quirks,
so that drivers look nice and simple and the ugly historical errors of the
device tree be hidden away in gpiolib-of.c.

Yours,
Linus Walleij