Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: gpio: make nCE GPIO optional

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

Hi Christophe, Boris,

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:03:34AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2017 07:47:40 +0200
> Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Le 01/05/2017 à 23:46, Brian Norris a écrit :
> > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:01:10PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:  
> > >> On some hardware, the nCE signal is wired to the ChipSelect associated
> > >> to bus address of the NAND, so it is automatically driven during the
> > >> memory access and it is not managed by a GPIO.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>  
> > >
> > > Not really a problem with this patch exactly, but FYI you're only making
> > > this optional for the non-DT case. For device tree, this is kinda hard
> > > to do, since the current binding suggests we retrieve the GPIOs based on
> > > index position, not by name. So if you leave one off...I guess we well
> > > just be off-by-1 on the indeces until we hit a non-optional one...which
> > > I guess is "CLE".
> > >
> > > If we wanted this to work for DT, we'd need to extend this driver (and
> > > binding doc) to support requesting GPIOs by name.
> > >  
> > 
> > It works for me with devicetree.
> > 
> > I have the following definition in my DT:
> > 
> > 		nand@1,0 {
> > 			compatible = "gpio-control-nand";
> > 			reg = <1 0x0 0x01>;
> > 			#address-cells = <1>;
> > 			#size-cells = <1>;
> > 			gpios = <&qe_pio_c 24 1 	// RDY
> > 				 0			// nCE
> > 				 &qe_pio_c 26 1		// ALE
> > 				 &qe_pio_c 25 1		// CLE
> > 				 0>;			// nwp  
> > 		};
> > 
> 
> Yep, it's perfectly fine to have 'empty' gpio entries (entries with
> phandle set to 0/NULL), we're using this trick in the atmel_nand
> driver as well.

I wasn't aware. In that case, you need to change the binding doc to
note that nCE is optional now.

Brian