Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] pinctrl: armada-37xx: Add gpio support

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Gregory CLEMENT
<gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> wrote:

You should add something to your Kconfig including:

select GPIOLIB
select OF_GPIO

or so... or depends on. You certainly need them.

> +static int armada_37xx_gpiochip_register(struct platform_device *pdev,
> +                                       struct armada_37xx_pinctrl *info)
> +{
> +       struct device_node *np;
> +       struct gpio_chip *gc;
> +       int ret = -ENODEV;
> +
> +       for_each_child_of_node(info->dev->of_node, np) {
> +               if (of_find_property(np, "gpio-controller", NULL)) {
> +                       ret = 0;
> +                       break;
> +               }
> +       };

OK so several GPIO chips as subnodes, why not one device per
chip? Or have we discussed this before? It seems a bit weird,
apparently there is just one node with a gpio-controller, as you're
just adding one pin range.

What happens if there would be two gpio-controllers? The second
is just ignored without error?

> +       ret = gpiochip_add_data(gc, info);
> +       if (ret)
> +               return ret;

Can't you use devm_gpiochip_add_data()?

> +       ret = gpiochip_add_pin_range(&info->gpio_chip, dev_name(dev), 0,
> +                                    pinbase, info->data->nr_pins);
> +       if (ret)
> +               return ret;

Why can't you put the range(s) into the device tree?

We already have code in drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c to do this
for you. And generic range definition bindings.

Yours,
Linus Walleij