Hi Geert, Thank you for the patch. On Tuesday 30 June 2015 09:45:21 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If a GPIO driver uses gpiochip_add_pin_range() (which is usually the > case for GPIO/PFC combos), the GPIO hogging mechanism configured from DT > doesn't work: > > requesting hog GPIO led1-high (chip r8a73a4_pfc, offset 28) failed > > The actual error code is -517 == -EPROBE_DEFER. > > The problem is that PFC+GPIO registration is handled in multiple steps: > 1. pinctrl_register(), > 2. gpiochip_add(), > 3. gpiochip_add_pin_range(). > > Configuration of the hogs is handled in gpiochip_add(): > > gpiochip_add > of_gpiochip_add > of_gpiochip_scan_hogs > gpiod_hog > gpiochip_request_own_desc > __gpiod_request > chip->request > pinctrl_request_gpio > pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range > > However, at this point the GPIO controller hasn't been added to > pinctrldev_list yet, so the range can't be found, and the operation fails > with -EPROBE_DEFER. > > To fix this, add a "gpio-ranges" property to the gpio device node, so > the ranges are added by of_gpiochip_add_pin_range(), which is called by > of_gpiochip_add() before the call to of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(). > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> This looks sane to me, even though referencing the same DT node seems a bit dodgy. I'll let Linus comment on that, but for the implementation itself, Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi > index 5090d1a8f652e8be..cb4f7b2798fe23be 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi > @@ -207,6 +207,13 @@ > reg = <0 0xe6050000 0 0x9000>; > gpio-controller; > #gpio-cells = <2>; > + gpio-ranges = > + <&pfc 0 0 31>, <&pfc 32 32 9>, > + <&pfc 64 64 22>, <&pfc 96 96 31>, > + <&pfc 128 128 7>, <&pfc 160 160 19>, > + <&pfc 192 192 31>, <&pfc 224 224 27>, > + <&pfc 256 256 28>, <&pfc 288 288 21>, > + <&pfc 320 320 10>; > interrupts-extended = > <&irqc0 0 0>, <&irqc0 1 0>, <&irqc0 2 0>, <&irqc0 3 0>, > <&irqc0 4 0>, <&irqc0 5 0>, <&irqc0 6 0>, <&irqc0 7 0>, -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html