Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: PINCTRL_MICROCHIP_SGPIO should depend on ARCH_SPARX5 || SOC_VCOREIII

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 2:45 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> > the Microsemi/Microchip Serial GPIO device is present only Microsemi
> > VCore III and Microchip Sparx5 SoCs.  Hence add a dependency on
> > ARCH_SPARX5 || SOC_VCOREIII, to prevent asking the user about this
> > driver when configuring a kernel without support for these SoCs.
> >
> > Fixes: 7e5ea974e61c8dd0 ("pinctrl: pinctrl-microchip-sgpio: Add pinctrl driver for Microsemi Serial GPIO")
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > index 113073d5f89bbf70..3b75b1d7d3d1f1b0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > @@ -353,8 +353,8 @@ config PINCTRL_OCELOT
> >
> >  config PINCTRL_MICROCHIP_SGPIO
> >         bool "Pinctrl driver for Microsemi/Microchip Serial GPIO"
> > -       depends on OF
> > -       depends on HAS_IOMEM
> > +       depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM
> > +       depends on ARCH_SPARX5 || SOC_VCOREIII || COMPILE_TEST
> >         select GPIOLIB
> >         select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
> >         select GENERIC_PINCONF
>
> Thank you for your patch. Unfortunately, it makes it impossible to use
> the driver across PCIe - which is a specifically desired configuration.
>
> Could you add CONFIG_PCI to the || chain?

Sure.

Is PCIe the only other transport over which the register can be accessed?
Or can this also be done over e.g. SPI, like on Ocelot[1]?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20200511145329.GV34497@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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