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

Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-04-27T11:01:14Z

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.

> The only remaining board files I expect to have soon are for
> the omap1 and s3c machines, so if you are going through the
> board files to convert them to over, I would suggest focusing
> on those.
>

S3C does not seem to need any changes, I already sent out a series for omap1.

Bart