RE: [PATCH v3 2/3] mwifiex: parse chip specific gpio from device tree

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Hi Rob/Arnd,

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 08 February 2016 02:15:27 Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> > >                 if (adapter->dt_node) {
> > > +                       if (of_property_read_u32(adapter->dt_node,
> > > +                                                "mwifiex,chip-
> gpio",
> > > +                                                &data) == 0) {
> > > +                               mwifiex_dbg(adapter, INFO,
> > > +                                           "chip_gpio = 0x%x\n",
> data);
> > > +                               adapter->hs_cfg.gpio = data;
> > > +                       }
> > > +
> > >
> >
> > Please use the GPIO DT binding. Reading a number from DT is not a
> > proper way to get a GPIO number, as you may have more than one GPIO
> > controller in a system and it is not obvious to which controller this
> > number belongs, or if you need to specify things like polarity.
> 
> My read of this is it is not the host SOC gpio, but the WiFi device's
> GPIO number. The host GPIO is defined in patch 3. We could still use the
> GPIO binding to describe it doing something like "marvell,<wifi gpio pin
> name>-gpios". Then the assignment is based on the property name.
> 

Yes. This is not host SOC gpio. It's wifi chip's gpio number.
We will use GPIO binding for this in updated version.

Regards,
Amitkumar Karwar
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