Re: [PATCH 0/3] gpio: deprecate and track the removal of the GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_NONEXCLUSIVE flag

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This feature is another pet-peeve of mine. It's a hack that people
> started using and now it's in all kinds of drivers. It doesn't really
> explain what it actually does, and it implements it badly.
>
> Let's deprecate it officially, add it to MAINTAINERS keywords so that it
> pops up on our radars when used again, add a task to track it and I plan
> to use the power sequencing subsystem to handle the cases where
> non-exclusive access to GPIOs is required.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Some like drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c seem to be just a bug,
are all non-regulator users bugs?

In general though:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij