Re: [PATCH v12 3/7] gpiolib: of: make fwnode take precedence in struct gpio_chip

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 03:48:39PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 02:40:36PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:34 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 09:41:33AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:10 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > This series concerns the gpio-sim driver and it only uses configfs
> > > > (with manually created platform devices) or device-tree. I would
> > > > prefer to do ACPI separately and I'd like you to lead that because I
> > > > neither have any HW to test nor claim to understand it. :)
> > >
> > > Please, mention this in the commit message that ACPI is not covered (yet).
> > 
> > But the commit message says: "gpiolib: of: make fwnode take precedence
> > in struct gpio_chip" - it says OF right here. :)
> 
> It implies that reader should have a 6th sense to know about ACPI and what
> else? Please, be explicit over implicit.

The problem here is that you change one case and haven't touched the rest which
brings inconsistency in the behaviour on different resource providers.

We need a record to be sure what disbalance this patch brought. That's why
I asked to mention ACPI branch.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko