From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] mfd: Make use of software nodes
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:56:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618085654.GL2428291@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616225648.eqzugzapatblndcy@mobilestation>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:56:48AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:40:35AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 PM Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 04:42:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Some devices would need to have a hierarchy of properties and
> > > > child nodes passed to the child or children of MFD. For such case
> > > > we may utilize software nodes, which is superior on device properties.
> > > >
> > > > Add support of software nodes to MFD core and convert one driver
> > > > to show how it looks like. This allows to get rid of legacy platform
> > > > data.
> > > >
> > > > The change has been tested on Intel Galileo Gen 2.
> > >
> > > I am wondering whether we could move the {gpio_base, ngpio, irq_shared}
> > > part into the gpio-dwapb.c driver and use either the ACPI-based or
> > > platform_device_id-based matching to get the device-specific resources
> > > info through the driver_data field. By doing so you wouldn't need to
> > > introduce a new "snps,gpio-base"-like property and propagate
> > > software_node-based properties, but still you could get rid of the
> > > dwapb_platform_data structure since all the info would be locally
> > > available.
> >
> > The idea is to get rid of the driver being dependent on some quirks
> > when we may do it clearly and nicely.
>
> Yes, I've got that and in most of the aspects I like what you suggested
> in this parchset. But it seems to me that the maintainers are mostly prone
> to having some of the platform-specifics being locally (in-driver) defined.
You are a maintainer of the dwapb-gpio. Is it what you insist?
> So I proposed an alternative solution, which might do to satisfy their
> requirement.
I'm puzzled whom about you are talking.
> Note saying that you want to get rid of the quirks and
> introducing something like "gpio-base" firmware property seems contradicting
> a bit.
Maybe I need to elaborate that under quirks I meant quirk-clean GPIO driver,
so, it wouldn't care about what platform(s) require base and what do not.
> > We, by applying this series, make (keep) layers independent: board
> > code vs. driver code. Mixing them more is the opposite to what I
> > propose.
> >
> > WRT property.
> > snps,gpio-base can be easily changed to *already in use* gpio-base or
> > being both converted to linux,gpio-base to explicitly show people that
> > this is internal stuff that must not be present in firmware nodes.
>
> As I see it the part with "gpio-base" and the irq_shared can be moved to the
> gpio-dwapb.c driver to be defined as the quark-specific quirks. Adding a
> property like "gpio-base" seems like a quirk anyway, so I'd leave it defined in
> the driver.
Huh?! The whole idea is make GPIO driver agnostic from platforms and their quirks.
> * Note I don't really like replacing the irq_shared flag with to_of_node()
> because in general to_of_node() doesn't mean the IRQ line is shared, so
> selecting the shared and non-shared interrupt request paths based on that macro
> seems hackish.
This I can understand, but can you propose better alternative?
> > > If ACPI-based matching doesn't uniquely address the Quark GPIO node,
> > > then you could just replace the intel_quark_mfd_cells[0].name with
> > > something like "gpio-dwapb-quark", which then by the MFD core will be
> > > copied to the corresponding platform_device->name due to calling
> > > platform_device_alloc() with cell-name passed. That name will be used
> > > to match a platform_driver with id_table having that new name added.
> >
> > Oh, that doesn't sound right. It makes things ugly.
>
> I may have said that a bit unclearly. The only thing you'd need to do is to
> add an unique name to the Quark GPIO cell, like:
> drivers/mfd/intel_quark_i2c_gpio.c:
> static struct mfd_cell intel_quark_mfd_cells[] = {
> {
> .name = "gpio-dwapb-quark",
> }
>
> Then make the gpio-dwapb.c driver being compatible with that device by declaring
> the id_table with that device name and passing the table to the DW APB GPIO
> "struct platform_driver" descriptor. The MFD/platform cores already provide the
> functionality of matching those two device and driver. If ACPI node uniquely
> defines the Quark GPIO with all that quirks applicable then you wouldn't even
> need to do the platform_device-driver-based matching. Just use the acpi_device_id
> to get the quirks flags/descriptors.
What you are talking about? Can you provide a code we can discuss?
> * Though indeed it would be better to mark the "snps,nr-gpios" as deprecated in
> the DT schema and have the "ngpios" supported as well.
Actually I used to have that piece in my first patches, but decided to remove
due to this property being (semi-)internal. I would like to hear GPIO
maintainers about this.
Bart, Linus?
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-08 13:42 [PATCH v1 0/6] mfd: Make use of software nodes Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] gpio: dwapb: Replace irq_shared flag with fwnode type check Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] gpio: dwapb: Read GPIO base from snps,gpio-base property Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-10 11:26 ` Linus Walleij
2020-06-10 13:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] mfd: core: Propagate software node group to the sub devices Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 19:25 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-09 12:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-17 12:51 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-08 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Convert to use software nodes Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-10 11:38 ` Linus Walleij
2020-06-10 13:43 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] gpio: dwapb: Get rid of legacy platform data Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-10 11:39 ` Linus Walleij
2020-06-10 13:47 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 13:43 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] gpio: dwapb: Define magic number for IRQ and GPIO lines Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-16 20:02 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] mfd: Make use of software nodes Serge Semin
2020-06-16 21:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-16 22:56 ` Serge Semin
2020-06-18 8:56 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-06-19 22:12 ` Serge Semin
2020-06-20 10:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-23 1:49 ` Serge Semin
2020-06-24 12:43 ` Andy Shevchenko
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