Re: [PATCH 5.10 081/290] gpiolib: Read "gpio-line-names" from a firmware node

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:01 PM Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/15/21 2:52 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit b41ba2ec54a70908067034f139aa23d0dd2985ce upstream.
> >
> > On STM32MP1, the GPIO banks are subnodes of pin-controller@50002000,
> > see arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32mp151.dtsi. The driver for
> > pin-controller@50002000 is in drivers/pinctrl/stm32/pinctrl-stm32.c
> > and iterates over all of its DT subnodes when registering each GPIO
> > bank gpiochip. Each gpiochip has:
> >
> >    - gpio_chip.parent = dev,
> >      where dev is the device node of the pin controller
> >    - gpio_chip.of_node = np,
> >      which is the OF node of the GPIO bank
> >
> > Therefore, dev_fwnode(chip->parent) != of_fwnode_handle(chip.of_node),
> > i.e. pin-controller@50002000 != pin-controller@50002000/gpio@5000*000.
> >
> > The original code behaved correctly, as it extracted the "gpio-line-names"
> > from of_fwnode_handle(chip.of_node) = pin-controller@50002000/gpio@5000*000.
> >
> > To achieve the same behaviour, read property from the firmware node.
>
> There seem to be some discussion going on around this patch, so please
> postpone backporting until that is settled. Same for v5.11 backport. I
> hope Andy/Bartosz agrees ?

Yes, this patch broke at least the testing module and we're working to
determine if it breaks DT drivers too.

Bart



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