Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: meraki-mx100: create and use real software node links

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Meraki-mx100 is one of the GPIOLIB users that abuses the software node
> API by setting up a dummy software node without any logical link to the
> GPIO controller it wants to use and uses the fact that the GPIO core
> matches the controller's label against the swnode's name to make the
> lookup work.
> 
> We want to remove this behavior from GPIOLIB in favor of actual matching
> of firmware nodes but that would break this user. This series creates
> a real software node in the MFD driver and references it from the meraki
> driver.

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

> This can be done in two patches and stay bisectable as the software
> nodes, despite having the same name, will have different parents so
> there are no kobject issues.
> 
> Merging: this should probably be acked by Hans or Ilpo and go through
> the MFD tree for v7.1.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko