Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: pxa: attach software nodes to the GPIO controllers

Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-04-30T07:14:36Z

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026, at 12:14, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > Convert GPIO controllers and their consumers on the PXA platform to using
> > > "attached" software nodes. Since everything happens in a bord-file, it's
> > > quite straightforward. We technically now have a way of passing an
> > > unregistered software node to platform_device_register_full() but that
> > > requires using struct platform_device_info and since the existing
> > > platform devices are either referenced from other places or defined in a
> > > different compilation unit, I wanted to reduce the impact of the changes
> > > I can't test and went with the older method.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski
> > > <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Hi Bartosz,
> >
> > These patches are individually all fine, but I was hoping to
> > finally get around to removing the pxa board files completely,
> > sorry it's been taking me so long to rebase my series for
> > that.
> >
>
> If that'll be queued for v7.2, then I'm fine with dropping this
> series. Otherwise, I'd like to see it applied as I want to get all the
> changes required to remove the software node name matching from
> GPIOLIB into v7.2 and then finally remove it in v7.3.
>

Hi Arnd!

Before I address Russell's comment in v2, can you please let me know
if pxa will be removed in v7.2?

Bart