Re: gpiolib sysfs access when CONFIG_GPIO_CDEV is not set

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 01:07:43PM +0100, Nicolas Schichan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 9:39 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > Thanks for the report and investigation.
> >
> > Just checking - the CONFIG_GPIO_CDEV defaults to enabled, so you had
> > explicitly disabled it?
> 
> Hello Kent,
> 
> Yes, we have no users of the character device gpio interface on our
> platform, so I have disabled it explicitly when updating the defconfig
> to the 5.10-rc1 kernel.
> 

Thanks for confirming that - I was concerned that it had somehow been
disabled unintentionally - which would be a bug in itself.

Cheers,
Kent.