Re: [PATCH] gpio: swnode: remove deprecated lookup mechanism

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 12:54:58PM +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 abused
> 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 relied on GPIOLIB matching the
> label of the GPIO controller against the name of the software node rather
> than on a real firmware node link.
> 
> All such users have now been coverted to using attached software nodes
> via the fwnode address lookup path and the kernel documentation has been
> updated to recommend it as the correct approach. This allows us to remove
> the old behavior.
> 
> This will allow us to leverage the upcoming support for fw_devlink for
> software nodes in GPIO core.

I am in favour of this,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
(but I prefer cleaner diff, see below).

...

>  fwnode_lookup:
> -	gdev = gpio_device_find_by_fwnode(fwnode);

> -	return gdev ?: ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);


Can we simply leave these two instead?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko