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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com>
Cc: "thierry.reding@gmail.com" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-tegra <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 06/11] gpiolib: Add HTE support
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:41:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdb79ONmgBGh=YE9kXMa8_8_zCyyiPkg531NDCsX8jGx5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210625235532.19575-7-dipenp@nvidia.com>

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 1:48 AM Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Some GPIO chip can provide hardware timestamp support on its GPIO lines
> , in order to support that additional functions needs to be added which
> can talk to both GPIO chip and HTE (hardware timestamping engine)
> subsystem. This patch introduces functions which gpio consumer can use
> to request hardware assisted timestamping. Below is the list of the APIs
> that are added in gpiolib subsystem.
>
> - gpiod_hw_timestamp_control - to enable/disable HTE on specified GPIO
> line. This API will return HTE specific descriptor for the specified
> GPIO line during the enable call, it will be stored as pointer in the
> gpio_desc structure as hw_ts_data.
> - gpiod_is_hw_timestamp_enabled - to query if HTE is enabled on
> specified GPIO line.
> - gpiod_get_hw_timestamp - to retrieve hardware timestamps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com>

This looks good to me.

The chip driver can look up and provide a timestamp provider for a
certain line, which is proper since the GPIO hardware will be tightly
coupled with the timestamp hardware so we need to ask the hardware
about this directly and delegate it to the GPIO driver.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-27 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-25 23:55 [RFC 00/11] Intro to Hardware timestamping engine Dipen Patel
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 01/11] Documentation: Add HTE subsystem guide Dipen Patel
2021-07-04 18:55   ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-27 23:44     ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-01 15:24       ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 02/11] drivers: Add HTE subsystem Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 17:40   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-04 20:15   ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-04 20:45     ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-28  5:12       ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-01 16:48         ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-28  4:38     ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-01 16:13       ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-09-14  5:43         ` Dipen Patel
2021-09-26 15:42           ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-05  7:30   ` Greg KH
2021-07-28  0:34     ` Dipen Patel
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 03/11] hte: Add tegra194 HTE kernel provider Dipen Patel
2021-07-01 14:21   ` Kent Gibson
2021-07-28 23:59     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-30  7:01       ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-31 15:43       ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-03 22:40         ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-03 23:02           ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-07  2:41         ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-07  3:07           ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-07  4:52             ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-07  4:51               ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-07  5:35                 ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-07  5:42                   ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-07  5:47                   ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-04 20:27   ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-07-29  2:42     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-08 23:33   ` Michał Mirosław
2021-07-29  2:43     ` Dipen Patel
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 04/11] dt-bindings: Add HTE bindings Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 10:56   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-30  1:32     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-01 14:02   ` Rob Herring
2021-07-30  1:56     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-01 15:54   ` Rob Herring
2021-07-30  1:58     ` Dipen Patel
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 05/11] hte: Add Tegra194 IRQ HTE test driver Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 17:42   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 06/11] gpiolib: Add HTE support Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 11:41   ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2021-07-01 14:24   ` Kent Gibson
2021-07-30  2:25     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-31  5:13       ` Kent Gibson
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 07/11] gpio: tegra186: Add HTE in gpio-tegra186 driver Dipen Patel
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 08/11] gpiolib: cdev: Add hardware timestamp clock type Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 11:38   ` Linus Walleij
2021-06-27 11:49   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-30  3:16     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-01 14:24   ` Kent Gibson
2021-07-30  3:07     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-31  6:05       ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-03 22:41         ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-03 22:38           ` Kent Gibson
2021-07-09  8:30   ` Jon Hunter
2021-07-30  2:33     ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-03 16:42       ` Jon Hunter
2021-08-03 22:51         ` Dipen Patel
2021-08-03 23:09           ` Kent Gibson
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 09/11] tools: gpio: Add new hardware " Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 11:36   ` Linus Walleij
2021-07-30  3:17     ` Dipen Patel
2021-07-31  6:16       ` Kent Gibson
2021-08-11  9:11         ` Linus Walleij
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 10/11] hte: Add tegra GPIO HTE test driver Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 17:43   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-06-25 23:55 ` [RFC 11/11] MAINTAINERS: Added HTE Subsystem Dipen Patel
2021-06-27 13:07 ` [RFC 00/11] Intro to Hardware timestamping engine Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-27 14:40   ` Linus Walleij
2021-06-28 12:02     ` Andy Shevchenko

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