Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] RTL8231 GPIO expander support

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Am 2021-05-24 13:41, schrieb Sander Vanheule:
Hi Andy, Andrew,

On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 10:53 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:11 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Changes since v2:
> >   - MDIO regmap support was merged, so patch is dropped here
>
> Do you have any idea how this will get merged. It sounds like one of
> the Maintainers will need a stable branch of regmap.

This is not a problem if Mark provides an immutable branch to pull from.

Mark has a tag (regmap-mdio) for this patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap.git/tag/?h=regmap-mdio


> >   - Introduce GPIO regmap quirks to set output direction first
>
> I thought you had determined it was possible to set output before
> direction?

Same thoughts when I saw an updated version of that patch. My
anticipation was to not see it at all.

The two devices I've been trying to test the behaviour on are:
* Netgear GS110TPP: has an RTL8231 with three LEDs, each driven via a pin configured as (active-low) GPIO. The LEDs are easy for a quick visual check. * Zyxel GS1900-8: RTL8231 used for the front panel button, and an active-low GPIO used to hard reset the main SoC (an RTL8380). I've modified this board to change some of the strapping pin values, but testing with the jumpers and
   pull-up/down resistors is a bit more tedious.

On the Netgear, I tested the following with and without the quirk:

   # Set as OUT-LOW twice, to avoid the quirk. Always turns the LED on
   gpioset 1 32=0; gpioset 1 32=0
   # Get value to change to input, turns the LED off (high impedance)
   # Will return 1 due to (weak) internal pull-up
   gpioget 1 32
   # Set as OUT-HIGH, should result in LED off
# When the quirk is disabled, the LED turns on (i.e. old OUT-LOW value)
   # When the quirk is enabled, the LED remains off (i.e. correct
OUT-HIGH value)
   gpioset 1 32=1

Now, what's confusing (to me) is that the inverse doesn't depend on the quirk:

   # Set as OUT-HIGH twice
   gpioset 1 32=1; gpioset 1 32=1
   # Change to high-Z
   gpioget 1 32
   # Set to OUT-LOW, always results in LED on, with or without quirk
   gpioset 1 32=0

Any idea why this would be (or appear) broken on the former case, but not on the
latter?

Before reading this, I'd have guessed that they switch the internal register depending on the GPIO direction; I mean there is only one register address
for both the input and the output register. Hm.

Did you try playing around with raw register accesses and see if the value of the GPIO data register is changing when you switch GPIOs to input/output.

Eg. you could try https://github.com/kontron/miitool to access the registers from userspace (your ethernet controller has to have support for the ioctl's though, see commit a613bafec516 ("enetc: add ioctl() support for PHY-related
ops") for an example).

-michael



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