Re: [PATCH] gpio: sim: added configfs option for static base

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM Sebastian Dietz <s.dietz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> To replicate gpio mappings of systems it is sometimes needed to have
> the base at static values.
>

Can you give me more info on why you'd need that? Static base is
largely a legacy and deprecated feature, there's ongoing effort to
remove it from the kernel.

> base is treated as unsigned as there doesn't happen to be a
> fwnode_property_read_s32().
>

Ha! That's interesting, I wonder why that is. We do have signed
variants for OF-specific properties.

Bart