The valid_mask member of the struct gpio_chip is unconditionally written
by the GPIO core at driver registration. Current documentation does not
mention this but just says the valid_mask is used if it's not NULL. This
lured me to try populating it directly in the GPIO driver probe instead
of using the init_valid_mask() callback. It took some retries with
different bitmaps and eventually a bit of code-reading to understand why
the valid_mask was not obeyed. I could've avoided this trial and error if
the valid_mask was hidden in the struct gpio_device instead of being a
visible member of the struct gpio_chip.
Help the next developer who decides to directly populate the valid_mask
in struct gpio_chip by hiding the valid_mask in struct gpio_device and
keep it internal to the GPIO core.
Suggested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4547ca90d910d60cab3d56d864d59ddde47a5e93.1741180097.git.mazziesaccount@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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