Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] gpio: eic-sprd: Support 8 banks EIC controller

[Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 10:43, Wenhua Lin <Wenhua.Lin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In order to solve the problem of insufficient eic,
> it supports 8 banks of eic controller, each bank contains 8 eic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenhua Lin <Wenhua.Lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c
> index 1ca3c444957c..715c7d581d7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c
> @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@
>  #define SPRD_EIC_SYNC_DATA             0x1c
>
>  /*
> - * The digital-chip EIC controller can support maximum 3 banks, and each bank
> + * The digital-chip EIC controller can support maximum 8 banks, and each bank
>   * contains 8 EICs.
>   */
> -#define SPRD_EIC_MAX_BANK              3
> +#define SPRD_EIC_MAX_BANK              8

This change seems not backward compatible.

Also this is not flexible to support more SoCs which may have more
than 8 banks (if we have this kind of SoCs in the future).

I would suggest adding a new item like 'bank_nums' into sprd_eic_variant_data.

Thanks,
Chunyan

>  #define SPRD_EIC_PER_BANK_NR           8
>  #define SPRD_EIC_DATA_MASK             GENMASK(7, 0)
>  #define SPRD_EIC_BIT(x)                        ((x) & (SPRD_EIC_PER_BANK_NR - 1))
> @@ -627,9 +627,9 @@ static int sprd_eic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
>         for (i = 0; i < SPRD_EIC_MAX_BANK; i++) {
>                 /*
> -                * We can have maximum 3 banks EICs, and each EIC has
> +                * We can have maximum 8 banks EICs, and each EIC has
>                  * its own base address. But some platform maybe only
> -                * have one bank EIC, thus base[1] and base[2] can be
> +                * have one bank EIC, thus base[1] to base[7] can be
>                  * optional.
>                  */
>                 res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, i);
> --
> 2.17.1
>