Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Add stubs for GPIO lookup functions

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> The gpio_device_find_by_() functions do not have stubs which means that if
> they are referenced from code with an optiona dependency on gpiolib then
> the code will fail to link. Add stubs for lookups via fwnode and label. I
> have not added a stub for plain gpio_device_find() since it seems harder to
> see a use case for that which does not depend on gpiolib.
>
> With the addition of the GPIO reset controller (which lacks a gpiolib
> dependency) to the arm64 defconfig this is causing build breaks for arm64
> virtconfig in -next:
>
> aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: drivers/reset/core.o: in function `__reset_add_reset_gpio_lookup':
>  /build/stage/linux/drivers/reset/core.c:861:(.text+0xccc): undefined reference to `gpio_device_find_by_fwnode'
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Since we have already exposed the innards of gpiolib as much
as we have I guess it's a must:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij