Re: [PATCH v3] x86/platform/geode: reference the real node of the cs5535 GPIO controller
From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 04:48:18 EST
On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:59:27 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> GPIO software node lookup should rely exclusively on matching the
> addresses of the referenced firmware nodes. Commit e5d527be7e69 ("gpio:
> swnode: don't use the swnode's name as the key for GPIO lookup") tried to
> enforce this but had to be reverted: it broke existing users who abuse the
> software node mechanism by creating "dummy" software nodes named after the
> device they want to get GPIOs from, without ever attaching them to the
> actual GPIO devices. Those users rely on GPIOLIB matching the label of the
> GPIO controller against the name of the software node rather than on a real
> firmware node link.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] x86/platform/geode: reference the real node of the cs5535 GPIO controller
https://git.kernel.org/brgl/c/f663487df5f5cc6042c892ba271587acdc59ed00
Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>