Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] gpio: dwapb: Refactor GPIO resources initialization

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 04:34:16 EST


On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:28 PM Serge Semin
<Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series is about the DW APB GPIO device initialization procedure
> cleaning up. First of all it has been discovered that having a
> vendor-specific "snps,nr-gpios" property isn't only redundant but also
> might be dangerous (see the commit log for details). Instead we suggest to
> use the generic "ngpios" property to define a number of GPIOs each DW APB
> GPIO controller port supports. Secondly seeing a tendency of the other
> GPIO drivers getting converted to using the GPIO-lib-based IRQ-chip
> interface this series provides a patch, which replaces the DW APB GPIO
> driver Generic IRQ-chip implementation with the GPIO-lib IRQ-chip one.
> Finally the DW APB GPIO device probe procedure is simplified by
> converting the code to be using the device managed resources for the
> reference clocks initialization, reset control assertion/de-assertion
> and GPIO-chip registration.
>
> Some additional cleanups like replacing a number of GPIOs literal with a
> corresponding macro and grouping the IRQ handlers up in a single place of
> the driver are also introduced in this patchset.

Sorry for the delay. Merge window and stress.

All 10 patches applied for v5.10!

Yours,
Linus Walleij