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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:49:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] gpio/pinctrl: replace gpiochip_is_requested()
 with a safer interface
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
        linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 10:35=E2=80=AFAM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>=
 wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
>
> While reworking the locking in GPIOLIB I realized that locking the
> descriptor with users still calling gpiochip_is_requested() will still
> be buggy as it returns a pointer to a string that can be freed whenever
> the descriptor is released. Let's provide a safer alternative in the
> form of a function that returns a copy of the label.
>
> Use it in all drivers and remove gpiochip_is_requested().

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

> I plan to provide this series in an immutable branch for the pinctrl and
> baytrail trees to pull.

Nice! I'll pull it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij