Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Convert to use software nodes

[Linus Walleij]

Hi Andy,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -/* The base GPIO number under GPIOLIB framework */
> -#define INTEL_QUARK_MFD_GPIO_BASE      8

OK I see this was around before, sigh.
So it's not your fault. It was introduced in commit
60ae5b9f5cdd8 which I was not involved in reviewing,
for the record I would have said "no".

It is exploiting commit 3d2613c4289ff where I allowed
pdata to set the base so it is anyway my fault for not
noticing :(

But me complaining about this doesn't make things better.

Can we simply DELETE this assignment and just set base to
-1 in a separate patch before this patch and see what happens? It's
really unsafe to hardcode base like this.

+       PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("snps,nr-gpios", 8),

This is however fine in principle but just use the existing generic
property "ngpios" and save this custom property.

Yours,
Linus Walleij