Re: [PATCH] MIPS: RB532: attach the software node to its target GPIO controller

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM Bartosz Golaszewski
<bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> GPIOLIB wants to remove the software node's name matching against GPIO
> controller's label that is going on behind the scenes in software node
> lookup. To that end, we need to convert all existing users to using
> software nodes actually attached to the GPIO devices they represent.
>
> In order to use an attached software node with the GPIO controller on
> rb532: convert the GPIO module into a real platform device, provide
> platform device info for it in device.c and assign the software node
> using its swnode field.
>
> The software node will get inherited by the GPIO chip from the parent
> platform device in devm_gpiochip_add_data() as we don't set the fwnode
> using any other of the mechanisms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me (TM).
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij