Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: gpio: Add a binding header for the MSC313 GPIO driver

[Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 22:46, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:10:04PM +0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> > Header adds defines for the gpio number of each pin
> > from the driver view. The gpio block seems to support 128 lines
> > but what line is mapped to a physical pin depends on the chip.
> > The driver itself uses the index of a pin's offset in an array
> > of the possible offsets for a chip as the gpio number.
> >
> > The defines remove the need to work out that index to consume
> > a pin in the device tree.
>
> I'd expect the DT to have 0-127 numbering... If you need to map that to
> another number, then an array property in DT could handle that.
>

Thank you for the comments on this header and the binding description.

Thinking about this again I'm thinking about having the GPIO numbers
be 0-127 like you say but supplying the valid offsets for that
specific chip and the pad/pin names to make visible to the user via an
array/arrays that contains the pin register offsets and the pin names.
Basically my per-chip table moves out of the driver and into the DT.
Does that sound acceptable? The main thing I want to avoid is
presenting the user with 128 gpios when the actually chip only has <10
of them wired up.

Thanks,

Daniel