Re: [PATCH 5/6] [v5] leds: gpio: make legacy gpiolib interface optional

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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.

...

>  	gpiod = devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(dev, NULL, idx, GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
> -	if (IS_ERR(gpiod))
> -		return gpiod;

We can leave these and rather have

	gpiod_set_consumer_name(gpiod, template->name);
	return gpiod;

than introduce irregular pattern.

> -	if (gpiod) {
> +	if (!IS_ERR(gpiod))
>  		gpiod_set_consumer_name(gpiod, template->name);
> -		return gpiod;
> -	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * This is the legacy code path for platform code that
> -	 * still uses GPIO numbers. Ultimately we would like to get
> -	 * rid of this block completely.
> -	 */
> +	return gpiod;
> +}

I haven't insisted on this previously as I thought that this was on track to be
applied. Since it's not (yet), please, amend the change.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko