Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-binding: pinctrl: Add NPCM8XX pinctrl and GPIO documentation

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Hi Krzysztof,

Sorry but I didn't understand,

On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 09:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 18/09/2022 20:28, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Thanks for your comment and sorry for the late reply.
>
> Two months... we are out of the context and this will not help your
> patchset.
>
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 00:10, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
>
> (...)
>
> >>> +examples:
> >>> +  - |
> >>> +    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
> >>> +    #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> >>> +
> >>> +    soc {
> >>> +      #address-cells = <2>;
> >>> +      #size-cells = <2>;
> >>> +
> >>> +      pinctrl: pinctrl@f0800000 {
> >>> +        compatible = "nuvoton,npcm845-pinctrl";
> >>> +        ranges = <0x0 0x0 0xf0010000 0x8000>;
> >>> +        #address-cells = <1>;
> >>> +        #size-cells = <1>;
> >>> +        nuvoton,sysgcr = <&gcr>;
> >>> +
> >>> +        gpio0: gpio@f0010000 {
> >>
> >> gpio@0
> >>
> >> Is this really a child block of the pinctrl? Doesn't really look like it
> >> based on addressess. Where are the pinctrl registers? In the sysgcr? If
> >> so, then pinctrl should be a child of it. But that doesn't really work
> >> too well with gpio child nodes...
> > the pin controller mux is handled by sysgcr this is why the sysgcr in
> > the mother node,
> > and the pin configuration are handled by the GPIO registers.  each
> > GPIO bank (child) contains 32 GPIO.
> > this is why the GPIO is the child node.
>
> Then maybe pinctrl should be the sysgcr and expose regmap for other devices?
The pin controller using the sysgcr to handle the pinmux, this is why
the sysgcr is in the mother node, is it problematic?

>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Best regards,

Tomer



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