Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] dt-bindings: gpio: Add gpio-repeater bindings

[Ulrich Hecht <uli@fpond.eu>]

> On November 27, 2019 at 9:42 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:
> 
> 
> Add Device Tree bindings for a GPIO repeater, with optional translation
> of physical signal properties.  This is useful for describing explicitly
> the presence of e.g. an inverter on a GPIO line, and was inspired by the
> non-YAML gpio-inverter bindings by Harish Jenny K N
> <harish_kandiga@mentor.com>[1].
> 
> Note that this is different from a GPIO Nexus Node[2], which cannot do
> physical signal property translation.
> 
> While an inverter can be described implicitly by exchanging the
> GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH and GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW flags, this has its limitations.
> Each GPIO line has only a single GPIO_ACTIVE_* flag, but applies to both
> th provider and consumer sides:
>   1. The GPIO provider (controller) looks at the flags to know the
>      polarity, so it can translate between logical (active/not active)
>      and physical (high/low) signal levels.
>   2. While the signal polarity is usually fixed on the GPIO consumer
>      side (e.g. an LED is tied to either the supply voltage or GND),
>      it may be configurable on some devices, and both sides need to
>      agree.  Hence the GPIO_ACTIVE_* flag as seen by the consumer must
>      match the actual polarity.
>      There exists a similar issue with interrupt flags, where both the
>      interrupt controller and the device generating the interrupt need
>      to agree, which breaks in the presence of a physical inverter not
>      described in DT (see e.g. [3]).
> 
> [1] "[PATCH V4 2/2] gpio: inverter: document the inverter bindings"
>     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/1561699236-18620-3-git-send-email-harish_kandiga@mentor.com/
> 
> [2] Devicetree Specification v0.3-rc2, Section 2.5
>     https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/releases/tag/v0.3-rc2
> 
> [3] "[PATCH] wlcore/wl18xx: Add invert-irq OF property for physically
>     inverted IRQ"
>     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-renesas-soc/20190607172958.20745-1-erosca@de.adit-jv.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
> v3:
>   - New.
> ---
>  .../bindings/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml          | 53 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000..efdee0c3be43f731
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/gpio/gpio-repeater.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: GPIO Repeater
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@mentor.com>
> +  - Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> +
> +description:
> +  This represents a repeater for one or more GPIOs, possibly including physical
> +  signal property translation (e.g. polarity inversion).
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: gpio-repeater
> +
> +  "#gpio-cells":
> +    const: 2
> +
> +  gpio-controller: true
> +
> +  gpios:
> +    description:
> +      Phandle and specifier, one for each repeated GPIO.
> +
> +  gpio-line-names:
> +    description:
> +      Strings defining the names of the GPIO lines going out of the GPIO
> +      controller.
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - "#gpio-cells"
> +  - gpio-controller
> +  - gpios
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  # Device node describing a polarity inverter for a single GPIO
> +  - |
> +    #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> +
> +    inverter: gpio-repeater {
> +        compatible = "gpio-repeater";
> +        #gpio-cells = <2>;
> +        gpio-controller;
> +        gpios = <&gpio 95 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> +    };
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>

Reviewed-by: Ulrich Hecht <uli+renesas@fpond.eu>

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Uli