From: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@ti.com>
To: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>,
Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>,
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-phy@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 1/4] dt-bindings: mux: Increase the number of arguments in mux-controls
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:01:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46644e9a-a9e9-4cdb-47e3-f42ebf49f805@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6e8cec9-4d74-dda5-d56a-b55ebfadf30a@axentia.se>
Hi Peter,
On 29/11/21 1:45 pm, Peter Rosin wrote:
>
>
> On 2021-11-29 05:36, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 25/11/21 7:05 pm, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> You need to have some description on how #mux-control-cells now work.
>>> The previous description is in mux-consumer.yaml and an update there
>>> is needed.
>>>
>>> However, I have realized that the adg792a binding uses #mux-control-cells
>>> to indicate if it should expose its three muxes with one mux-control
>>> and operate the muxes in parallel, or if it should be expose three
>>> independent mux-controls. So, the approach in this series to always
>>> have the #mux-control-cells property fixed at <2> when indicating a
>>> state will not work for that binding. And I see no fix for that binding
>>> without adding a new property.
>>>
>>> So, I would like a different approach. Since I dislike how mux-controls
>>> -after this series- is not (always) specifying a mux-control like the name
>>> says, but instead optionally a specific state, the new property I would
>>> like to add is #mux-state-cells such that it would always be one more
>>> than #mux-control-cells.
>>>
>>> mux: mux-controller {
>>> compatible = "gpio-mux";
>>> #mux-control-cells = <0>;
>>> #mux-state-cells = <1>;
>>>
>>> mux-gpios = <...>;
>>> };
>>>
>>> can-phy {
>>> compatible = "ti,tcan1043";
>>> ...
>>> mux-states = <&mux 1>;
>>> };
>>>
>>> That solves the naming issue, the unused argument for mux-conrtrollers
>>> that previously had #mux-control-cells = <0>, and the binding for adg792a
>>> need no longer be inconsistent.
>>>
>>> Or, how should this be solved? I'm sure there are other options...
>>>
>>
>>
>> I feel that the new approach using mux-state-cells seems to be
>> overpopulating the device tree nodes, when the state can be represented
>> using the control cells. I understand that the definition for
>> mux-controls is to only specify the control line to be used in a given
>> mux. Can't it now be upgraded to also represent the state at which the
>> control line has to be set to?
>>
>> With respect to adg792a, it is inline with the current implementation
>> and the only change I think would be required in the driver is,
>
> No, that does not work. See below.
>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mux/adg792a.c b/drivers/mux/adg792a.c
>> index e8fc2fc1ab09..2cd3bb8a40d4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mux/adg792a.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mux/adg792a.c
>> @@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ static int adg792a_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>> ret = device_property_read_u32(dev, "#mux-control-cells", &cells);
>> if (ret < 0)
>> return ret;
>> - if (cells >= 2)
>> - return -EINVAL;
>>
>> mux_chip = devm_mux_chip_alloc(dev, cells ? 3 : 1, 0);
>
> When you add cell #2 with the state, the cells variable will end up
> as 2 always. Which means that there is no way to alloc one mux
> control since "cells ? 3 : 1" will always end up as "3", with no
> easy fix.
>
> So, your approach does not work for this driver.
>
Sorry, but how is this different from the case of
#mux-control-cells = 1
If #mux-control-cells is equal to 1 it means the consumer will use a
given control line from the mux chip. The same would be the case when we
will be using, #mux-control-cells is equal to 2, except we can also
provide the state.
If the consumer will use all the lines then #mux-control-cells will be
set to 0. In this condition the state can't be provided from the DT and
the consumer will be controlling the entire mux chip. If
#mux-control-cells is greater than 0 then we will not be able to provide
multiple lines of control using a single mux-controls entry(mux-controls
= <...>;) right? We would have the using multiple mux-controls
entries(mux-controls = <...>, <...>;).
Thanks,
Aswath
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>> if (IS_ERR(mux_chip))
>>
>> And the following series should be compatible with it. If adg792a driver
>> is the only issue then would there be any issue with only changing it
>> and using this implementation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aswath
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On 2021-11-23 09:12, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
>>>> Increase the allowed number of arguments in mux-controls to add support for
>>>> passing information regarding the state of the mux to be set, for a given
>>>> device.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@ti.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/gpio-mux.yaml | 2 +-
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/mux-controller.yaml | 2 +-
>>>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/gpio-mux.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/gpio-mux.yaml
>>>> index 0a7c8d64981a..c810b7df39de 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/gpio-mux.yaml
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/gpio-mux.yaml
>>>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ properties:
>>>> List of gpios used to control the multiplexer, least significant bit first.
>>>>
>>>> '#mux-control-cells':
>>>> - const: 0
>>>> + enum: [ 0, 1, 2 ]
>>>>
>>>> idle-state:
>>>> default: -1
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/mux-controller.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/mux-controller.yaml
>>>> index 736a84c3b6a5..0b4b067a97bf 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/mux-controller.yaml
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/mux-controller.yaml
>>>> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ properties:
>>>> pattern: '^mux-controller(@.*|-[0-9a-f]+)?$'
>>>>
>>>> '#mux-control-cells':
>>>> - enum: [ 0, 1 ]
>>>> + enum: [ 0, 1, 2 ]
>>>>
>>>> idle-state:
>>>> $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/int32
>>>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-23 8:12 [PATCH RFC v3 0/4] MUX: Add support for reading enable state from DT Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-23 8:12 ` [PATCH RFC v3 1/4] dt-bindings: mux: Increase the number of arguments in mux-controls Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-25 13:35 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-29 4:36 ` Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-29 8:15 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-29 9:31 ` Aswath Govindraju [this message]
2021-11-29 12:28 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-29 12:55 ` Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-23 8:12 ` [PATCH RFC v3 2/4] dt-bindings: phy: ti,tcan104x-can: Document mux-controls property Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-23 8:12 ` [PATCH RFC v3 3/4] mux: Add support for reading mux enable state from DT Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-25 13:52 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-29 4:44 ` Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-29 8:36 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-30 5:44 ` Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-30 5:58 ` Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-30 8:11 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-23 8:12 ` [PATCH RFC v3 4/4] phy: phy-can-transceiver: Add support for setting mux Aswath Govindraju
2021-11-25 14:07 ` Peter Rosin
2021-11-29 4:51 ` Aswath Govindraju
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