Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] gpio: deprecate and track the removal of GPIO workarounds for regulators

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Apr 01 2025 - 09:27:20 EST


On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 02:46:41PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> Let's deprecate both symbols officially, add them to the MAINTAINERS
> keywords so that it pops up on our radars when used again, add a task to
> track it and I plan to use the power sequencing subsystem to handle the
> cases where non-exclusive access to GPIOs is required.

What exactly is the plan here? The regulator (and reset) usage seems
like a reasonable one TBH - the real problem is having an API from the
GPIO subsystem to discover sharing, at the minute you can't resolve a
binding enough to find out if there's sharing without actually
requesting the GPIO.

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