Re: [PATCH 00/13] treewide: replace linux/gpio.h

Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:53:46 -0700

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:26:20 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> said:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
>
> The linux/gpio.h header used to be the global definition for the gpio
> interfaces, with 1100 users back in linux-3.17. In linux-7.2, only about
> 130 of those remain, so this series cleans out the rest.
>
> In each subsystem, we can replace the header either with
> linux/gpio/consumer.h for users of the modern gpio descriptor interface,
> or linux/gpio/legacy.h for the few remaining users of the old number
> based interface.
>
> All patches in this series can get applied independently, so my
> preference would be for each subsystem maintainer to apply these
> directly, with the rest going into the gpio tree at some point.
>
> The final patch here obviously needs to wait for all the others
> to get merged first.
>
>       Arnd

Thanks for doing this Arnd!

For the series:

Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>