Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make non-linear GPIO ranges accesible from gpiolib

[Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:38:09PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 06:55 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
> 
> > +In addition, named groups of pins can be mapped to pin groups of a given
> > +pin controller:
> > +
> > +	gpio_pio_g: gpio-controller@1480 {
> > +		#gpio-cells = <2>;
> > +		compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank";
> > +		reg = <0x1480 0x18>;
> > +		gpio-controller;
> > +		gpio-pingrps = <&pinctrl1 0>, <&pinctrl2 3>;
> > +		gpio-pingrp-names = "pctl1_gpio_g", "pctl2_gpio_g";
> 
> A few thoughts here:
> 
> "gpio-pingrps" doesn't sound very similar to the existing "gpio-ranges".
> Can we make their equivalent purpose more obvious by renaming this
> "gpio-group-ranges"?
> 
> I'm not actually even sure we need a new property for this, except for
> the string group names. We could fold the new gpio-pingrps into the
> existing gpio-ranges, whose entries have the format:
> 
> <gpio-base> <pinctrl-base> <count>
> 
> ... by saying that if count==0, it means to use a group name instead of
> a pinctrl-base value. We can insist that pinctrl-base==0 in this case
> too. If we go made, count==0 could mean "special" and pinctrl-base==0
> could mean "by pinctrl group name", and other values of pinctrl-base
> could be added later to mean other things!
> 
> gpio-ranges =
> 	<&pinctrl1 0 20 10>, /* Existing numeric style */
> 	<&pinctrl2 10 0 0>,  /* Count==0, so group name style */
> 	<&pinctrl1 0 20 10>, /* Existing numeric style */
> gpio-ranges-group-names =
> 	"",    /* No group name required for entry 0 */
> 	"gr1", /* Group name for entry 1 */
> 	"";    /* No group name required for entry 2 */
> 
> Does this seem better?
> [...]

In the follow-up a patch set based on this proposal. I have also
included our drivers (and device tree updates) with this to see how this
looks in a real (working) system. To me it does actually look quite nice
and logical but take a look at it yourselves and tell me what you think.

Greetings,
  Christian

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