Re: [PATCH RFT 2/6] gpio: mmio: get chip label and GPIO base from device properties

[Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 21:44, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
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> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> >
> > Ahead of removing struct bgpio_pdata support from the gpio-mmio generic
> > module, let's add support for getting the relevant values from generic
> > device properties. "label" is a semi-standardized property in some GPIO
> > drivers so let's go with it. There's no standard "base" property, so
> > let's use the name "gpio-mmio,base" to tie it to this driver
> > specifically. The number of GPIOs will be retrieved using
> > gpiochip_get_ngpios() so there's no need to look it up in the software
> > node.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
>
> This works for me.
> I wouldn't be stoked to see device trees abusing the "gpio-mmio,base"
> property all of a sudden just because it now exists as a device
> property though... I kind of wish we had a way to opt out of exposing
> this to all the sub-property paths. But it seems tiresome, so:
>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

That's not a problem - this property is not in any DT bindings and as
such is not an allowed property in DT sources. For out-of-tree DTs? We
don't care about those.

Bartosz