Re: [Stratos-dev] [PATCH V3 1/3] gpio: Add virtio-gpio driver

[Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 22:56, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:24 PM Vincent Guittot
> <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 15:00, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:50 PM Vincent Guittot via Stratos-dev <stratos-dev@op-lists.linaro.org> wrote:>
> > >
> > > But this example seem to be completely different from the ones I mentioned:
> > > The scmi node that you have here looks like it shows up under the root of the
> > > device tree, not below the virtio device that implements the scmi transport.
> >
> > I was thinking of something like below:
> >
> >     deviceX: deviceX@YYYYYYY {
> >         ...
> >         gpio = <&virtio_gpio 0>;
> >         ...
> >     };
> >
> >     virtio_mmio@a000000 {
> >         dma-coherent;
> >         interrupts = <0x0 0x10 0x1>;
> >         reg = <0x0 0xa000000 0x0 0x200>;
> >         compatible = "virtio,mmio";
> >
> >         virtio_gpio: protocol@22 {
> >             reg = <0x22>;
> >         };
>
> Encoding the device ID as "reg" seems somewhat odd, especially since there
> can only be one child for each virtio device. The other bus types use the
> "compatible" property instead of "reg" for this purpose. This is still
> redundant,
> since the type is also known from the contents, but it seems less unusual.

At least this ensures to match directly the protocol id instead of
mapping a compatible string with the protocol id.

>
> The gpio node in the example is usually called "gpio" or "gpio-controller", and
> it would then need the "gpio-controller" and "#gpio-cells" properties so other
> nodes can refer to it by phandle.

yes, This short example is just to show what I mean.



>
>        Arnd