Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 5 authors, 2017-05-31

Re: [PATCH 5/6] gpio: mvebu: Add support for the Armada 7K/8K SoCs

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2017-05-19 16:24:31
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On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 06:09:24PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
The Armada 7K and 8K SoCs use the same gpio controller as most of the
other mvebu SoCs. However, the main difference is that the GPIO
controller is part of a bigger system controller, and a syscon is used to
control the overall system controller. Therefore, the driver needs to be
adjusted to retrieve the regmap of the syscon to access registers, and
account for the fact that registers are located at a certain offset
within the regmap.

This commit add the support of the syscon and introduce a new variant for
this case.
Do you really need all this complexity of merging what seems to be two
GPIO devices into one for DT purposes?  The device itself appears to be
two instances of the orion-gpio controller, one at 0x100 into the
system controller and a second one at 0x140.

If you instantiate two orion-gpio controllers, then you don't need to
add the "mvchip->offset" stuff.

I'd also say that it was the more correct approach, rather than adding
more complexity to GPIO drivers to support whatever incarnation comes
next.

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