Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpio: mxc: silence warning about GPIO base being statically allocated

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The i.MX GPIO driver has had deterministic numbering for the GPIOs
> for more than 12 years.
>
> Reverting this to dynamically numbered will break existing setups in the
> worst manner possible: The build will succeed, the kernel will not print
> warnings, but users will find their devices essentially toggling GPIOs
> at random with the potential of permanent damage. We thus want to keep
> the numbering as-is until the SysFS API is removed and script fail
> instead of toggling GPIOs dependent on probe order.

While I understand the issue this tends to get never fixed until the
entire support of iMX boards will be dropped. Personally I do not like
this series at all. Rather let's try to go the hard way and understand
what's going on to fix the current issues.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko