Re: [PATCH 07/12] arm64: dts: allwinner: orange-pi-3: Enable ethernet

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:22 AM Ondřej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > +                enable-active-high;
> > > +                gpio = <&pio 3 6 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /* PD6 */
> >
> > Is enable-active-high still needed? It's redundant with the
> > GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH flag.
>
> Looking at the code, use/non-use of enable-active-high inhibits
> flags specified in gpio property. So the GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH flag
> is ignored here (had GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW been used, the kernel would
> ignore it too and print a warning).
>
> So enable-active-high is still necessary here.
>
> See comment in gpiolib-of.c where this is handled:
>
> /*
>  * The regulator GPIO handles are specified such that the
>  * presence or absence of "enable-active-high" solely controls
>  * the polarity of the GPIO line. Any phandle flags must
>  * be actively ignored.
>  */

Yeah this caused me special headache in the current merge
window because of buggy code on my part.

This is an effect of this flag being defined for powerpc
ages before we properly implemented generic GPIO
bindings. We just have to respect it.

See:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=155417774822532&w=2

Yours,
Linus Walleij