Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pinctrl: cherryview: Ignore INT33FF UID 5 ACPI device

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11/26/21 19:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:28:02PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:56:50AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Many Cherry Trail DSDTs have an extra INT33FF device with UID 5,
>>> the intel_pinctrl_get_soc_data() call will fail for this extra
>>> unknown UID, leading to the following error in dmesg:
>>>
>>>  cherryview-pinctrl: probe of INT33FF:04 failed with error -61
>>>
>>> Add a check for this extra UID and return -ENODEV for it to
>>> silence this false-positive error message.
>>
>> Hmm... Interesting. Why do they have it?
>> Give me some time to check this...
> 
> _DDN in ACPI describes this as Virtual GPIO. The only documentation at hand
> right now tells me that this is a "solution" to represent the "virtual GPIO"
> as fifth community (no connection to any pads, minimum configuration, etc).
> 
> The goal as far as I can see is "to convert a PME event generated by PCI device
> to a GPIO interrupt".
> 
> Seems like we better have a driver for it, but the only purpose of it is to
> generate interrupts based on PME.
> 
> I'll try to dig more may be next week, but for now I would like to postpone the
> patch. Do you agree?

Yes postponing merging this is fine. There is no hurry since this does
not fix anything broken. I just wanted to get rid of the annoying log message :)

Regards,

Hans