Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] i2c: mux: pca954x: Support multiple devices on a single reset line

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 3:51 PM Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2021-08-02 at 14:46 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:03:15AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> > > Some systems connect several PCA954x devices to a single reset
> > > GPIO. For
> > > these devices to get out of reset and probe successfully, each
> > > device must
> > > defer the probe until the GPIO has been hogged. Accomplish this by
> > > attempting to grab a new "reset-shared-hogged" devicetree property,
> > > but
> > > expect it to fail with EPROBE_DEFER or EBUSY.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > ------
> > >  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c
> > > b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c
> > > index 4ad665757dd8..376b54ffb590 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c
> > > @@ -434,15 +434,43 @@ static int pca954x_probe(struct i2c_client
> > > *client,
> > >     i2c_set_clientdata(client, muxc);
> > >     data->client = client;
> > >
> > > -   /* Reset the mux if a reset GPIO is specified. */
> > > -   gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
> > > -   if (IS_ERR(gpio))
> > > -           return PTR_ERR(gpio);
> > > -   if (gpio) {
> > > -           udelay(1);
> > > -           gpiod_set_value_cansleep(gpio, 0);
> > > -           /* Give the chip some time to recover. */
> > > -           udelay(1);
> > > +   /*
> > > +    * Grab the shared, hogged gpio that controls the mux reset. We
> > > expect
> > > +    * this to fail with either EPROBE_DEFER or EBUSY. The only
> > > purpose of
> > > +    * trying to get it is to make sure the gpio controller has
> > > probed up
> > > +    * and hogged the line to take the mux out of reset, meaning
> > > that the
> > > +    * mux is ready to be probed up. Don't try and set the line any
> > > way; in
> > > +    * the event we actually successfully get the line (if it
> > > wasn't
> > > +    * hogged) then we immediately release it, since there is no
> > > way to
> > > +    * sync up the line between muxes.
> > > +    */
> > > +   gpio = gpiod_get_optional(dev, "reset-shared-hogged", 0);
> > > +   if (IS_ERR(gpio)) {
> > > +           ret = PTR_ERR(gpio);
> > > +           if (ret != -EBUSY)
> > > +                   return ret;
> >
> > Why can't you just do this with the existing 'reset-gpios' property?
> > What's the usecase where you'd want to fail probe because EBUSY
> > other
> > than an error in your DT.
>
> Hi, thanks for the reply.
>
> Are you suggesting I use "reset-gpios" and change the driver to ignore
> EBUSY? I don't know any other usecase, I just didn't think it would be
> acceptable to ignore EBUSY on that, but perhaps it is a better
> solution.

Yes. I'm assuming that's the only way EBUSY is returned? A DT already
contains everything needed to know multiple 'reset-gpios' are sharing
a GPIO line. It's a kernel problem to figure that out.

(Really, I'd like to make 'reset-gpios' be handled by the reset
subsystem which handles shared resets already. Then 'reset-gpios' or
'resets' could be used in nodes and drivers don't know the
difference.)

Rob