Re: Revisiting rbtx4927: gpiod_direction_output_raw: invalid GPIO

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Hi Nemoto-san,

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:06:05 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've just updated my old rbtx4927 from v3.13-rc3 to v4.6-rc3.
>> Surprisingly, it boots to nfsroot without any kernel changes.
>
> Good news!  I'm happy to hear that.
>
>> However, there's an annoying warning in the boot log:
>>
>>         gpiod_direction_output_raw: invalid GPIO
>>
>> This is caused by the following code in arch/mips/txx9/rbtx4927/setup.c:
>>
>>         static void __init rbtx4927_mem_setup(void)
>>         {
>>
>>                 /* TX4927-SIO DTR on (PIO[15]) */
>>                 gpio_request(15, "sio-dtr");
>>
>> returns -EPROBE_DEFER
>>
>>                 gpio_direction_output(15, 1);
>>
>> VALIDATE_DESC triggers the warning.

Note that as of commit 54d77198fdfbc4f0 ("gpio: bail out silently on NULL
descriptors"), the warning is gone. But the underlying issue isn't.

>> Probably a silly GPIO conversion was missed during the last 2+ years?
>
> Maybe txx9_gpio_init() failed to add gpio_chip since it was called too
> early on startup.
>
> Nowadays gpiochip_add_data calls kzalloc so cannot be called from
> plat_mem_setup context.

That's correct. It failed (silently) with -12, which is -ENOMEM...

> Could you try moving these txx9_gpio_init(), gpio_request() and
> gpio_direction_output() calls to rbtx4927_arch_init() or
> rbtx4927_device_init()?

Thanks, that works! Will send patches soon...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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