Re: [PATCH v6 08/13] gpio: mxc: use local dev variable
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 06:40:42 EST
On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 12:30:07PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 2:54 PM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> >> struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
> >
> >Why not this one? Is it even used? Perhaps you want to have
>
> of_alias_get_id() is used, there is no counterpart in fwnode api for it.
>
> > struct fwnode_handle *fwnode = dev_fwnode(dev);
> >
> >here?
What about using to_of_node() for that one and fwnode for IRQ APIs?
> >> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
...
> >> - dev_info(&pdev->dev, "%s failed with errno %d\n", __func__, err);
> >> + dev_info(dev, "%s failed with errno %d\n", __func__, err);
> >
> >This message simply needs to be killed, with initcall_debug in the
> >kernel command line you will get something similar from driver core.
>
> ok. Let me fold the change in this patch, I would not introduce
> another patch to just drop this line.
Why not? This is a logically different change. Since the driver was
not touched for a long time there is a technical debt, you can first
send fixes separately, followed by a number of the drops like this one
(remove a noisy line), followed by new features. Make it three patch
series.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko