Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add gpio-syscon10 to rk3328

From: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
To: Levin Du <djw@t-chip.com.cn>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add gpio-syscon10 to rk3328
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:24:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqLujC0nx9LpkWuSR0+fsZn4UJL9Ln6SHWyBmZ-7ErMzfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fdfcc9b-90b5-191c-37e0-c99389a4e872@t-chip.com.cn>

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:45 PM, Levin Du <djw@t-chip.com.cn> wrote:
> On 2018-05-10 8:50 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On 10/05/18 10:16, djw@t-chip.com.cn wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Levin Du <djw@t-chip.com.cn>
>>>
>>> Adding a new gpio controller named "gpio-syscon10" to rk3328, providing
>>> access to the pins defined in the syscon GRF_SOC_CON10.
>>
>>
>> This is the GPIO_MUTE pin, right? The public TRM is rather vague, but
>> cross-referencing against the datasheet and schematics implies that it's the
>> "gpiomut_*" part of the GRF bit names which is most significant.
>>
>> It might be worth using a more descriptive name here, since "syscon10" is
>> pretty much meaningless at the board level.
>>
>> Robin.
>>
> Previously I though other bits might be able to reference from syscon10,
> other than GPIO_MUTE alone.
> If it is renamed to gpio-mute, then the GPIO_MUTE pin is accessed as
> `<&gpio-mute 1>`. Yet other
> bits in syscon10 can also be referenced, say, `<&gpio-mute 10>`, which is
> not good.
>
> I'd like to add a `gpio,syscon-bit` property to gpio-syscon, which overrides
> the properties
> of bit_count,  data_bit_offset and dir_bit_offset in the driver. For

No. Once you are describing individual register bits, it is too low
level for DT.

> example:
>
>                 gpio_mute: gpio-mute {
>                         compatible = "rockchip,gpio-syscon";
>                         gpio-controller;
>                         #gpio-cells = <2>;
>                         gpio,syscon-dev = <0 0x0428 0>;
>                         gpio,syscon-bit = <1 1 0>;
>                 };
>
> That way, the mute pin is strictly specified as <&gpio_mute 0>, and
> <&gpio_mute 1> will be invalid.
> I think that is neat, and consistent with the gpio_mute name.
>
> Thanks
> Levin
>
>
>
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