Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2021 12:57:38 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 2/6] gpiolib: allow to specify the firmware node in struct gpio_chip |
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 02:11:28PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:04 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
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> Let me maybe rephrase the problem: currently, for GPIO devices > instantiating multiple banks created outside of the OF or ACPI > frameworks (e.g. instantiated manually and configured using a > hierarchy of software nodes with a single parent swnode and a number > of child swnodes representing the children), it is impossible to > assign firmware nodes other than the one representing the top GPIO > device to the gpiochip child devices. > > In fact if we want to drop the OF APIs entirely from gpiolib - this > would be the right first step as for gpio-sim it actually replaces the > gc->of_node = some_of_node; assignment that OF-based drivers do for > sub-nodes defining banks and it does work with device-tree (I verified > that too) thanks to the fwnode abstraction layer.
In exchange of acknowledgements I confirm that I understood the issue you are describing. What I still don't like is this band-aid:ish approach. What we really need is to replace of_node by fwnode in GPIO library once for all. But it can be done later after your simulation series (or before, i.o.w. independently), hence I propose to update TODO and do it separately.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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