Re: (subset) [PATCH 1/2] mfd: cs5535: add, assign and expose the software node for the GPIO cell
From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 10:45:30 EST
On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 May 2026, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:23:30 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > There are board files in-tree that want to request GPIOs from this chip.
> > > > They currently rely on the GPIO core's mechanism of matching software
> > > > nodes' labels against GPIO controller names. We want to remove this
> > > > behavior from the kernel and to this end, we need to associate the
> > > > referenced GPIO controller with its target software node.
> > > >
> > > > Create a dedicated GPIO software node for cs5535, assign it to the GPIO
> > > > cell and expose its address in a new header.
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > Applied, thanks!
> > >
> > > [1/2] mfd: cs5535: add, assign and expose the software node for the GPIO cell
> > > commit: 2b640932f661c2fafde4cc9e38dbbfa9a79bc057
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lee Jones [李琼斯]
> > >
> >
> > Lee,
> >
> > Can you please pick up both patches from this series or provide an
> > immutable branch for the x86 tree to be able to queue patch 2/2 from
> > this series?
>
> What is the dependency?
>
There's a build dependency: the geode board file needs to access the
variable from the cs5355.h header.
Bartosz