Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:58:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] gpio: gpio-mlxbf3: Add gpio driver support |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 9:08 PM Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > > > + npins = MLXBF3_GPIO_MAX_PINS_PER_BLOCK; > > > > + device_property_read_u32(dev, "npins", &npins); > > > > > > I don't see DT bindings for this property (being added in this series). Is it > > already established one? > > > > > > Ah that’s my bad. The property should be called "ngpios" like in the DT > > documentation. Will fix. > > > > And why do you need it? What's a corner case that the GPIO library doesn't > > handle yet? > > We have 2 gpiochips, gpiochip 0 supports 32 gpio pins and gpiochip 1 supports only 24 pins. > If I remove the logic from gpio-mlxbf3.c, the gpiolib.c logic will correctly set the ngpios = 32 for gpiochip 0 but will wrongly set ngpios=32 for gpiogchip 1:
So, either you need to have two entries in DT per chip or ngpios should be 56.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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