From: Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@mentor.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
Balasubramani Vivekanandan
<balasubramani_vivekanandan@mentor.com>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>,
Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] gpio: inverter: document the inverter bindings
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 19:50:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191005175024.GA25394@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06a1acab-fcc4-7b3a-697b-4d253c354513@wwwdotorg.org>
Hi Stephen,
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:07:23PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
[..]
> I think the DT should represent the device that's attached to the GPIOs.
> That way, there's already a clear way to represent the GPIO polarity, as
> described in the document linked by Eugenui in [2] below.
>
> If for some reason that's not possible, then I think keeping track of the
> GPIO polarity in user-space is entirely reasonable, and is the correct
> approach. To claim that tracking GPIO polarity in user-space is too much
> burden, yet to also allow user-space to control GPIOs at all, and hence to
> know exactly which GPIOs must be controlled, is an inconsistent assertion.
>
> Put another way: If a piece of user-space SW controls GPIOs, it must know
> which GPIO number to use for each logical purpose. This information
> presumably varies on different platforms, so the SW must have a list of GPIO
> numbers and GPIO controller IDs per platform. Additionally storing a
> polarity bit along with that information seems entirely trivial to me.
>
> Is there some other issue that I'm overlooking?
Based on the discussions so far, the user who requested this feature
intends to (in fact already does) "mark" the userspace-relevant gpio
lines via the "gpio-line-names" [5] DT property, implemented by Linus
in v4.7 commit [6]. By keeping track of "gpio line name" both in DT and
in user-space, apparently the user is able to accurately map the
"line name" (visible in userspace) to the corresponding gpio chip/name
and gpio line offset in a "platform/board-independent" way.
Do you think this is unorthodox?
> If the list of GPIO IDs is retrieved from DT by the user-space SW, I could
> see an argument for storing the polarity information in DT along with that
> list of GPIO IDs. However, I don't believe there's any standard way of
> representing "a list of GPIO IDs for user space use" in DT.
>
> > If we hog a GPIO pin in DTS (which allows specifying its polarity),
> > userspace no longer has access to that pin. There isn't a way to define
> > GPIO polarity by means of DTS without affecting userspace access
> > (can anybody contradict this statement?).
>
> GPIO hog doesn't seem like the right approach; its intent is to actively
> configure the GPIO in a fixed state, which is logically incompatible with
> user-space control of the GPIO.
Agreed. Thanks for strengthening the idea behind hogging the gpios.
[..]
> > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=139204273132477&w=4 ("Correct meaning of the GPIO active low flag")
> > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=51e8afc1c43c75 ("gpio: document polarity flag best practices")
> > [3] https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=155721267517644&w=2 ("[PATCH V1 1/2] gpio: make it possible to set active-state on GPIO lines")
> > [4] https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=155713157122847&w=2 ("[PATCH V1 1/2] gpio: make it possible to set active-state on GPIO lines")
[5] https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=155712945922102&w=2
[6] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fd9c55315db9
("gpio: of: make it possible to name GPIO lines")
--
Best Regards,
Eugeniu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-05 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-28 9:30 [PATCH V4 2/2] gpio: inverter: document the inverter bindings Harish Jenny K N
2019-07-04 5:01 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-07-08 22:36 ` Rob Herring
2019-07-09 5:25 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-07-09 16:08 ` Rob Herring
2019-07-10 8:28 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-07-17 13:51 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-07-29 11:07 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-08-05 11:15 ` Linus Walleij
2019-08-09 14:08 ` Rob Herring
2019-08-10 8:51 ` Linus Walleij
2019-08-19 9:36 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-08-27 7:47 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-08-30 5:21 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-09-04 4:58 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-09-10 7:47 ` Rob Herring
2019-09-11 12:52 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-09-25 16:51 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2019-09-27 5:52 ` Phil Reid
2019-09-27 9:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-05 13:07 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2019-10-07 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-11 4:35 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-11-12 11:52 ` Harish Jenny K N
2019-11-12 12:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-04 19:07 ` Stephen Warren
2019-10-05 17:50 ` Eugeniu Rosca [this message]
2019-10-07 15:36 ` Stephen Warren
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-06-28 5:20 [PATCH V4 0/2] Add Inverter controller for gpio configuration Harish Jenny K N
2019-06-28 5:20 ` [PATCH V4 2/2] gpio: inverter: document the inverter bindings Harish Jenny K N
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