Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] reset: gpio: use software nodes to setup the GPIO lookup

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 12:08:31 EST


On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Do, 2025-11-06 at 15:32 +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > GPIO machine lookup is a nice mechanism for associating GPIOs with
> > consumers if we don't know what kind of device the GPIO provider is or
> > when it will become available. However in the case of the reset-gpio, we
> > are already holding a reference to the device and so can reference its
> > firmware node. Let's setup a software node that references the relevant
> > GPIO and attach it to the auxiliary device we're creating.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> I'll apply this with the following patch squashed in:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/reset/core.c b/drivers/reset/core.c
> index 3edf04ae8a95..8a7b112a9a77 100644
> --- a/drivers/reset/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/reset/core.c
> @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ static int __reset_add_reset_gpio_device(const struct of_phandle_args *args)
> of_node_get(rgpio_dev->of_args.np);
>
> rgpio_dev->swnode = fwnode_create_software_node(properties, NULL);
> - ret = PTR_ERR(rgpio_dev->swnode);
> + ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(rgpio_dev->swnode);
> if (ret)
> goto err_put_of_node;

Huh? Why?

Bartosz