On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > I don't see why this would stop these patches though, as they don't > > break anything unless you decide to make your pin controller strict in > > which situation you'd need to verify which functions can GPIOs anyway. > > It can't anyway, Linus already applied :-) >
This would be the third time he did it so it's not like it's carved in stone. I see your point but I think we should cross that bridge when we get there. Shouldn't be too hard, we already have an entry point: gpiod_request_user() where we could set an additional flag marking the descriptor as requested by user-space in which case, when we get to the relevant pinctrl code, it could check this and refuse based on whether the descriptor was requested from within the kernel or from outside. Bart
