Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: add support for fetching descriptors from static properties

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:53 AM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that static device properties understand notion of child nodes, let's
> teach gpiolib to tie such children and machine GPIO descriptor tables.
> We will continue using a single table for entire device, but instead of
> using connection ID as a lookup key in the GPIO descriptor table directly,
> we will perform additional translation: fwnode_get_named_gpiod() when
> dealing with property_set-backed fwnodes will try parsing string property
> with name matching connection ID and use result of the lookup as the key in
> the table:
>
> static const struct property_entry dev_child1_props[] __initconst = {
>         ...
>         PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("gpios",          "child-1-gpios"),
>         { }
> };
>
> static struct gpiod_lookup_table dev_gpiod_table = {
>         .dev_id = "some-device",
>         .table = {
>                 ...
>                 GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("B", 1, "child-1-gpios", 1, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW),
>                 ...
>         },
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

I'm pretty grateful for this since I think at one point I provoked this whole
series. :)

> +static struct gpio_desc *__fwnode_get_named_gpiod(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,

I am allergic to __underscore_with_unclear_semantics() so I will
change this when applying to something with meaning (I even
like "inner_" better.)

Otherwise it's good to go when I get an ACK on the first patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij