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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:19:25 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gpio: davinci: restore a way to manually specify the
 GPIO base
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:51 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> Commit 587f7a694f01 ("gpio: davinci: Use dev name for label and
> automatic base selection") broke the network support in legacy boot
> mode for da850-evm since we can no longer request the MDIO clock GPIO.
>
> Other boards may be broken too, which I haven't tested.
>
> The problem is in the fact that most board files still use the legacy
> GPIO API where lines are requested by numbers rather than descriptors.
>
> While this should be fixed eventually, in order to unbreak the board
> for now - provide a way to manually specify the GPIO base in platform
> data.
>
> Fixes: 587f7a694f01 ("gpio: davinci: Use dev name for label and automatic base selection")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

I guess this will be merged throug ARM SoC?

Yours,
Linus Walleij