Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] gpio: dwapb: Read GPIO base from gpio-base property

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:15 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For backward compatibility with some legacy devices introduce
> a new (*) property gpio-base to read GPIO base. This will allow
> further cleaning up of the driver.
>
> *) Note, it's not new for the GPIO library since the mockup driver
>    is using it already.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: added check to ensure that the property won't be used by FW (Serge)
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> index 4c7153cb646c..674e91e69cc5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> @@ -584,6 +584,10 @@ static struct dwapb_platform_data *dwapb_gpio_get_pdata(struct device *dev)
>
>                 pp->gpio_base   = -1;
>
> +               /* For internal use only, new platforms mustn't exercise this */
> +               if (is_software_node(fwnode))
> +                       fwnode_property_read_u32(fwnode, "gpio-base", &pp->gpio_base);

You rewrite the code quicker than I can review  :D

So this is elegant, I would prefer "linux,gpio-base" but the
overall change is more important, with or without that change:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij