Re: [PATCH] reset: gpio: Fix missing gpiolib dependency for GPIO reset controller

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Mar 21 2024 - 07:38:29 EST


On 21/03/2024 11:59, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 08:18:36AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 20/03/2024 20:59, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> The GPIO reset controller uses gpiolib but there is no Kconfig
>>> dependency reflecting this fact, add one.
>
>> Lack of dependency was intentional: because there is no dependency.
>> GPIOLIB is optional. Because of that I added few stubs for missing
>> GPIOLIB functions, but I missed this stub here.
>
>> I propose to add gpio_device_find_by_fwnode() stub for !GPIOLIB case,
>> instead of adding dependency.
>
> In general the stubs do make sense however in this specific case given
> that the driver is specifically to control a GPIO rather than using a
> GPIO along with controlling some other thing a dependency does seem like
> it makes sense.

Then you add dependency in wrong place. The warning you have is in:
drivers/reset/core.o

But the dependency you add is in RESET_GPIO, which is a separate driver.
While the driver indeed wants GPIO, this won't solve the original
problem. You still can have RESET_GPIO disabled and core still has the
gpiolib call to missing stub.

Best regards,
Krzysztof