Hi Dmitry,
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 12:52:59AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Now that static device properties understand notion of child nodes, let's
> teach gpiolib to tie such children and machine GPIO descriptor tables.
> We will continue using a single table for entire device, but instead of
> using connection ID as a lookup key in the GPIO descriptor table directly,
> we will perform additional translation: fwnode_get_named_gpiod() when
> dealing with property_set-backed fwnodes will try parsing string property
> with name matching connection ID and use result of the lookup as the key in
> the table:
>
> static const struct property_entry dev_child1_props[] __initconst = {
> ...
> PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("gpios", "child-1-gpios"),
> { }
> };
>
> static struct gpiod_lookup_table dev_gpiod_table = {
> .dev_id = "some-device",
> .table = {
> ...
> GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("B", 1, "child-1-gpios", 1, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW),
> ...
> },
> };
We don't need struct gpiod_lookup_table anymore. We can mimic DT with
the software nodes now that we have those "reference properties". A
gpio reference with the software nodes would look something like this:
enum {
GPIO_CONTROLLER,
MY_DEVICE
};
static const struct software_node nodes[];
static const struct software_node_ref_args reset_gpio_ref = {
.node = &nodes[GPIO_CONTROLLER],
.nargs = 2,
.args = {
14, /* line number */
GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH /* flags */
}
};
static const struct software_node_reference my_refs[] = {
{ "reset-gpios", 1, &reset_gpio_ref }
};
/* Optionally, we could support gpiochip finding by name... */
static const struct property_entry my_props[] = {
PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("gpio-controller", "name_of_the_controller")
};
static const struct software_node nodes[] = {
[GPIO_CONTROLLER] = { "gpio_controller" },
[MY_DEVICE] = { "my_device", NULL, my_props, my_refs }
};
void my_init(void)
{
...
ret = software_node_register_nodes(nodes);
...
}
In gpiolib we should now be able to access that reference with
fwnode_property_get_references_args():
static int gpiochip_match_fwnode(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *fwnode)
{
/* The fwnode member needs to be added to struct gpio_chip */
return chip->fwnode == fwnode;
}
static struct gpio_desc *gpiod_find(struct device *dev,
const char *con_id,
unsigned int idx,
unsigned long flags)
{
struct fwnode_reference_args args;
struct gpio_chip *chip;
struct gpio_desc *desc;
const char *name;
int ret;
ret = fwnode_property_get_refernce_args(dev_fwnode(dev), con_id,
NULL, idx, &args);
...
/* Let's find the gpiochip */
chip = gpiochip_find(args.fwnode, gpiochip_match_fwnode);
...
/* Or optionally with find_chip_by_name() */
//ret = device_property_read_string(dev, "gpio-controller", &name);
...
//chip = find_chip_by_name(name);
...
/* I'm assuming hwnum is the same as line number? */
desc = gpiochip_get_desc(chip, args.args[0]);
*flags = args.args[1];
return desc;
}
The above is just an example, but I'm pretty sure that something like
it (with a little bit of tuning) is all that we need.
thanks,
--
heikki
