Re: RE: Re:RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: mcp23s08: reject devices without match data

From: Linus Walleij

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 06:01:18 EST


On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 8:59 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe this is the whole design of driver_override like this...
> There is an attempt to allow drivers to forbid that feature.

I guess I don't have the right background to understand
the driver_override feature, it feels someone should explain
its virtues to me because I feel I am getting really angry
at it and it may not deserve that.

The entire name of the thing feels like debugfs-footgun
territory for example.

Yours,
Linus Walleij