Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] gpio: acpi: Even more tighten up ACPI GPIO lookups

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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The commit 10cf4899f8af ("gpiolib: tighten up ACPI legacy gpio lookups")
> prevents to getting same resource twice if the driver asks twice using
> different connection ID.
>
> But the whole idea of fallback might bring some problems. Imagine the case when
> we have two versions of BIOS/hardware where in one _DSD is introduced along
> with GPIO resources, but the other one uses just plain GPIO resource for
> another purpose
>
> Case 1:
>
>     Device (DEVX)
>     {
>         ...
>         Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
>         {
>             GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
>                     "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {15}
>         })
>         Name (_DSD, Package ()
>         {
>             ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
>             Package ()
>             {
>                 Package () {"some-gpios", Package() {^DEVX, 0, 0, 0 }},
>             }
>         })
>     }
>
> Case 2:
>
>     Device (DEVX)
>     {
>         ...
>         Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
>         {
>             GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
>                     "\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {27}
>         })
>     }
>
> To prevent the possible misconfiguration tighten up even more GPIO ACPI lookups
> for case without connection ID provided.
>
> In the past the issue had been triggered by "use mctrl_gpio helpers" series
> [1,2].
>
> [1] commit 4ef03d328769 ("tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers")
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9283745/
>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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