Hi Nikita,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 4:28 PM Nikita Yushchenko
<nikita.yoush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Interrupt definition is not added yet, because the interrupt lines of
> >> lsm9ds0 are pulled to VCC on the board, which implies need for
> >> active-low configuration. But st_sensors drivers currently can't work
> >> with active-low interrupts on this chip.
> >
> > That's unfortunate, as DT describes hardware, not limitations of the
> > software stack.
>
> Unfortunately, if interrupt definition is added, driver does wrong things and causes board hang.
OK.
> >> + vdd-supply = <&accel_3v3>;
> >> + vddio-supply = <&accel_3v3>;
> >
> > According to the bindings, the supplies are not required, so you can
> > leave them out? Or are the bindings wrong?
>
> If supplies are not defined, warning messages about dummy regulator are logged.
OK.
> > (The bindings also say "interrupts: maxItems 2", while the "interrupts:
> > description" says up to three interrupts, doh...)
>
> Chip has 3 interrupt outputs. On KF board, all those are ANDed together and result connected to SoC's
> gpio that is expected to be used as a shared active-low interrupt. Driver currently claims that this
> chip does not support active-low interrupts. Per datasheet, this is not true. But driver's way to set up
> interrupt registers does not scale to the case when interrupts have to be configured by different bits
> in several registers, that part of the driver has to be somehow rewritten. I guess nobody has ever tried
> to make these drivers (st_*) to drive a compound device (accel+gyro) with interrupts.
>
> At the same time, the device is perfectly useful without interrupts, and that is how it is enabled in
> the vendor BSP.
OK, will queue in renesas-devel for v5.18, with the low-hanging fruits
(node names, order) fixed.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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