Re: [RFC v5 5/5] dt-bindings: firmware: arm,scmi: Add support for pinctrl protocol

[Takahiro Akashi <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>]

Hi Arm folks,

Do you have any comment?
I expect that you have had some assumption when you defined
SCMI pinctrl protocol specification.

On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 02:12:36PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 8:28???AM Oleksii Moisieiev
> <Oleksii_Moisieiev@epam.com> wrote:
> 
> > +                keys_pins: keys-pins {
> > +                    pins = "GP_5_17", "GP_5_20", "GP_5_22", "GP_2_1";
> > +                    bias-pull-up;
> > +                };
> 
> This is kind of interesting and relates to my question about naming groups and
> functions of GPIO pins.
> 
> Here we see four pins suspiciously named "GP_*" which I read as
> "generic purpose"
> and they are not muxed to *any* function, yes pulled up.
> 
> I would have expected something like:
> 
> keys_pins: keys-pins {
>   groups = "GP_5_17_grp", "GP_5_20_grp", "GP_5_22_grp", "GP_2_1_grp";
>   function = "gpio";
>   pins = "GP_5_17", "GP_5_20", "GP_5_22", "GP_2_1";
>   bias-pull-up;
> };
> 
> I hope this illustrates what I see as a problem in not designing in
> GPIO as an explicit
> function, I get the impression that these pins are GPIO because it is hardware
> default.

If you want to stick to "explicit", we may rather introduce a pre-defined
sub-node name, "gpio", in a device tree binding, i.e.

  protocol@19 { // pinctrl protocol
      ... // other pinmux nodes

      scmi_gpio: gpio { // "gpio" is a fixed name
          keys-pins {
              pins = "GP_5_17", "GP_5_20", "GP_5_22", "GP_2_1";
              bias-pull-up;
              // possibly input or output
          };
          input-pins {
              groups = "some group"; // any name
              input-mode;
          }
          output-pins {
              pins = "foo1", "foo2"; // any name
              output-mode;
          }
      }
  }

It would indicate that all the succeeding nodes are for gpio definitions
and *virtual* gpio pin numbers will be assigned in the order of
appearances in "gpio" node. Then a client driver may refer to a gpio pin
(say, GP_2_1?) like in the current manner:

  foo_device {
       ...
       reset-gpios = <&scmi_gpio 3 ...>;
  }

-Takahiro Akashi

> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij