Re: [PATCH v7 4/9] spi: cs42l43: Use actual ACPI firmware node for chip selects

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> On some systems the cs42l43 has amplifiers attached to its SPI
> controller that are not properly defined in ACPI. Currently
> software nodes are added to support this case, however, the chip
> selects for these devices are specified using a hack. A software
> node is added with the same name as the pinctrl driver, as the
> look up was name based, this allowed the GPIO look up to return
> the pinctrl driver even though the swnode was not owned by it.
> This was necessary as the swnodes did not support directly
> linking to real firmware nodes.
> 
> Since commit e5d527be7e69 ("gpio: swnode: don't use the swnode's
> name as the key for GPIO lookup") changed the lookup to be
> fwnode based this hack will no longer find the pinctrl driver,
> resulting in the driver not probing. There is no pinctrl driver
> attached to the swnode itself. But other patches did add support
> for linking a swnode to a real fwnode node [1]. As such the hack
> is no longer needed, so switch over to just passing the real
> fwnode for the pinctrl property to avoid any issues.

I very much like this solution.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko