Re: [PATCH] [v2] leds: gpio: make legacy gpiolib interface optional

Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-04-30T14:19:09Z

On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:11:55 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> said:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> There are still a handful of ancient mips/armv5/sh boards that use the
> gpio_led:gpio member to pass an old-style gpio number, but all modern
> users have been converted to gpio descriptors.
>
> While the CONFIG_GPIOLIB_LEGACY option that guards devm_gpio_request_one()
> and related helpers is currently turned on in all kernel builds,
> the plan is to only enable it on the few platforms that actually
> pass gpio numbers in any platform_data.
>
> Split out the legacy portion of the platform_data handling into a custom
> helper function that is guarded with in #ifdef block, to allow the
> the leds-gpio driver to compile cleanly when CONFIG_GPIOLIB_LEGACY
> gets turned off. Once the last user is converted, this function can
> be removed.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e9252384-a55c-4a91-9c61-06e05a0b2ce4@app.fastmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>