On 10/28/2015 4:52 AM, Pramod Kumar wrote:
Hi Linus,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] pinctrl: use ngpios propety from DT
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Pramod Kumar <pramodku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Since identical hardware is used in several instances and all pins are
not routed to pinctrl hence getting total number of gpios from DT make
more sense hence stop using total number of gpios pins from drivers
and extract it from DT.
Signed-off-by: Pramod Kumar <pramodku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch is wrong.
Keep this per-compatible code, and only overrid the ngpios if and only if:
- The ngpios is set in the DT node
- The ngpios in the DT node is *smaller* than the hardware
defined number of GPIOs.
ngpios is for restricting the number of available lines due to routing etc, not to
define what the hardware has, because the hardware most certainly have all the
lines, it's just that you're not using all of them.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
I discussed with ASIC team regarding this iProc GPIO block. They use a library to create the GPIOs block where "total number of GPIO pins( let say N) in GPIO block" is used as an parameter.
Library uses a construct for *a* GPIO pin. This gets instantiated N times to create a complete GPIO block with N pins.
Just to confirm, N can be *any number*, and when it exceeds 32,
additional registers will be created by the library, correct? I think
that's what I saw with Cygnus, where 3 instances of this GPIO controller
was used, with two of them less supporting less than 32 GPIOs and one of
them (ASIU) supporting 146 GPIOs, in which case, 5 register banks are
used with 0x200 segment each.
All iProc based SoCs uses this library. So I'm not sure whether attaching "total number of GPIOs pins" to compatible-string make sense in this case.
The closest I can think of is to tie a very large number of N to the
"brcm,iproc-gpio" compatible string for all new iProc SoCs, but even
that, one can argue how large is *large*
I personally feel that passing this number from the DT makes more sense here. Any iProc based future as well as current SoCs would be able to use this driver without any change.
Please advise us in this case.
Regards,
Pramod
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