On Wednesday 09 March 2016 10:47 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 03/09/2016 06:20 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2016 11:58 AM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
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Hi,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:32:07PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
The child node for gpio hogs under gpio controller's node
provide the mechanism to automatic GPIO request and
configuration as part of the gpio-controller's driver
probe function.
Currently, property "gpio" takes one gpios for such
configuration. Add support to have multiple GPIOs in
this property so that multiple GPIOs of gpio-controller
can be configured by this mechanism with one child node.
So if I read this correctly you want to have multiple GPIOs with the
same line name? Why don't you use multiple child nodes with individual
line names?
There is cases on which particular functional configuration needs sets
of GPIO to set. On this case, making sub node for each GPIOs creates
lots of sub-nodes and add complexity on readability, usability and
maintainability.
Example: for my board, I wanted to set GPIO H2 to input and H0 and H1 to
be output high.
Instead of three nodes, I can have two here:
gpio@0,6000d000 {
wlan_input {
gpio-hog;
gpios = <TEGRA_GPIO(H, 2) 0>;
input;
};
wlan_output {
gpio-hog;
gpios = <TEGRA_GPIO(H, 0) 0 TEGRA_GPIO(H, 1) 0>;
output-high;
};
};
>
So here I am grouping the multiple output GPIO together.
This looks much similar if we have many GPIOs for one type of
configurations.
Even it looks better if we have something:
gpio@0,6000d000 {
wlan_control {
gpio-hog;
gpios-input = <TEGRA_GPIO(H, 2) 0>;
gpios-output-high = <TEGRA_GPIO(H, 0) 0
TEGRA_GPIO(H, 1) 0>;
};
};
The problem with that is the description used when acquiring the GPIO
is just "wlan_input", "wlan_output", or "wlan_control". There's
nothing to indicate what those individual pins do (perhaps one is a
reset signal, one is a regulator enable, etc.?) By requiring separate
nodes for each GPIO, then the node name can provide a meaningful
semantic name/description for each GPIO, which provides much more
information.
On this case, we have already property "line-name" and passed the name
of the gpio via this property.
The property names is "line-name" which is good for one string. We can
support other property "line-names" with multiple string per GPIO index.
line-names = "wlan-reset", "wlan-enable";
If the approach in this patch is acceptable though, I think you want
to update the description of "gpios" (in the GPIO hog definition
section) in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt to mention
that multiple GPIO entries are legal. Right now it says that property
much contain exactly #gpio-cells, not a multiple of #gpio-cells.
I have 5th patch for this and will rearrange series as you suggested on
5th patch.
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