Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] nvmem: add support for the write-protect pin

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Hi Khouloud,

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:30 AM Khouloud Touil <ktouil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The write-protect pin handling looks like a standard property that
> could benefit other users if available in the core nvmem framework.
>
> Instead of modifying all the memory drivers to check this pin, make
> the NVMEM subsystem check if the write-protect GPIO being passed
> through the nvmem_config or defined in the device tree and pull it
> low whenever writing to the memory.
>
> There was a suggestion for introducing the gpiodesc from pdata, but
> as pdata is already removed it could be replaced by adding it to
> nvmem_config.
>
> Reference: https://lists.96boards.org/pipermail/dev/2018-August/001056.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Khouloud Touil <ktouil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/nvmem-consumer.h>
>  #include <linux/nvmem-provider.h>
> +#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include "nvmem.h"
> @@ -54,8 +55,14 @@ static int nvmem_reg_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, unsigned int offset,
>  static int nvmem_reg_write(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, unsigned int offset,
>                            void *val, size_t bytes)
>  {
> -       if (nvmem->reg_write)
> -               return nvmem->reg_write(nvmem->priv, offset, val, bytes);
> +       int ret;
> +
> +       if (nvmem->reg_write) {
> +               gpiod_set_value_cansleep(nvmem->wp_gpio, 0);
> +               ret = nvmem->reg_write(nvmem->priv, offset, val, bytes);
> +               gpiod_set_value_cansleep(nvmem->wp_gpio, 1);
> +               return ret;
> +       }
>
>         return -EINVAL;
>  }
> @@ -338,6 +345,14 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
>                 kfree(nvmem);
>                 return ERR_PTR(rval);
>         }
> +       if (config->wp_gpio)
> +               nvmem->wp_gpio = config->wp_gpio;
> +       else
> +               nvmem->wp_gpio = gpiod_get_optional(config->dev, "wp",
> +                                                   GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);

Shouldn't this GPIO be released in nvmem_release(), by calling gpiod_put()?

Once that's implemented, I assume it will be auto-released on registration
failure by the call to put_device()?

> +       if (IS_ERR(nvmem->wp_gpio))
> +               return PTR_ERR(nvmem->wp_gpio);
> +
>
>         kref_init(&nvmem->refcnt);
>         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nvmem->cells);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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