Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: Pass consumer device through to core in devm_fwnode_gpiod_get_index()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Feb 28 2024 - 16:35:52 EST


On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 10:28:07PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:57 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:52:53PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > This devm API takes a consumer device as an argument to setup the devm
> > > action, but throws it away when calling further into gpiolib. This leads
> > > to odd debug messages like this:
> > >
> > > (NULL device *): using DT '/gpio-keys/switch-pen-insert' for '(null)' GPIO lookup
> > >
> > > Let's pass the consumer device down, by directly calling what
> > > fwnode_gpiod_get_index() calls but pass the device used for devm. This
> > > changes the message to look like this instead:
> > >
> > > gpio-keys gpio-keys: using DT '/gpio-keys/switch-pen-insert' for '(null)' GPIO lookup
> > >
> > > Note that callers of fwnode_gpiod_get_index() will still see the NULL
> > > device pointer debug message, but there's not much we can do about that
> > > because the API doesn't take a struct device.
> >
> > Have you seen this?
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231019173457.2445119-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Clearly yes as I queued the first one in that series. The rest did not
> make its way upstream for whatever reason. What is your point? You
> want to respin it?

It was a reply to Stephen. :-)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko