Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: swnode: remove deprecated lookup mechanism

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:51:00 +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.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] gpio: swnode: remove deprecated lookup mechanism
      https://git.kernel.org/brgl/c/611fd6cfe13997245f1f1b59b81e957163491773

Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>