Re: [PATCH v5 03/21] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Add starfive,jhb100-sys0-pinctrl

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 02:45:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM Changhuang Liang
> <changhuang.liang@starfivetech.com> wrote:
> 
> > > You still did not explain the cells - neither in reply nor in commit - thus start
> > > with that. Why do you need it? Multiple controllers have groupped pins or
> > > GPIOs in registers, so explanation "every 32 GPIOs correspond to one register"
> > > tells me nothing. Why would that matter how many GPIOs is in one register?
> >
> > Since every 32 GPIOs correspond to one register, Linus suggested at the time that I could try using:
> > gpios = <&gpio [instance] offset flags>;
> > gpio-ranges = <&pinctrl [gpio_instance] gpio_offset pin_offset count>;
> >
> > The advantage of using this is that in a GPIO controller with more than 32 GPIOs, every 32 GPIOs
> > can be treated as one GPIO bank. This way, in the driver, converting pin_offset to gpio_offset does
> > not require a large number of /32 and %32 operations.
> >
> > the following is Linus's original suggestion at the time
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAD++jL=tvDBWJHRGGJw4nnox_kcJKn5hwvwz9zxadMRedyvRhw@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Just copy this explanation into the commit so it is clear why you
> need three cells for this.

"Can use gpiolib" is not really justification. Neither is avoiding a 
shift and/or mask. I suppose there's some h/w attribute here to justify 
it? 

Rob