Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 24 Sep 2022 13:42:37 +0200 | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: at91_cf: switch to using gpiod API |
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On 24/09/2022 10:33:29+0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, at 8:04 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > This patch switches the driver to use newer gpiod API instead of legacy > > gpio API. This moves us closer to the goal of stopping exporting > > OF-specific APIs of gpiolib. > > > > While at it, stop using module-global for regmap. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> > > This looks good to me overall. Three comments: > > > @@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ struct at91_cf_socket { > > > > static inline int at91_cf_present(struct at91_cf_socket *cf) > > { > > - return !gpio_get_value(cf->board->det_pin); > > + return gpiod_get_value(cf->board->det_pin); > > } > > a) The change in polarity looks wrong here, I can't really tell > from the patch. If this is intentional, maybe explain it in > the changelog. With that addressed (either way) > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > > b) In case you are doing more patches like this one at the moment, > note that I'm in the process of removing all unused board files > for arch/arm/, which will in turn make a lot of drivers unused. > I should be able to provide a branch soon, which can be used to > identify drivers that don't have DT support any more and don't > have any board files. Rather than converting them to gpio > descriptors, we can probably just remove those drivers. > > c) I'm not sure about the state of the at91_cf driver. Apparently > we used to have three drivers for the same hardware (pcmcia, > pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained in the tree > after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get converted > to DT. I think in the long run we will remove the pcmcia layer, > so if you are actually trying to use this hardware, we may want to > revive the pata variant and drop this one instead. > There is no dts file in tree that actually declares either of them, > so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF slot on at91 > any more. >
I'm pretty sure it is broken since eaa9a21dd14b ("pcmcia: at91_cf: Use syscon to configure the MC/smc") as this change has never been tested.
-- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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