Re: [PATCH 2/2] extcon: gpio: Add dt support for the driver.

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 04:58:20AM +0100, George Cherian wrote:
> Add device tree support to extcon-gpio driver.
> Add devicetree binding documentation
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@ti.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-gpio.txt     | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-gpio.c                       | 29 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-gpio.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-gpio.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..80b791b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/extcon/extcon-gpio.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +GPIO based EXTCON
> +
> +EXTCON GPIO
> +-----------
> +
> +Required Properties:
> + - compatible: should be:
> +   * "ti,extcon-gpio"
> + - gpios: specifies the gpio pin used.
> + - debounce: Debounce time for GPIO IRQ in ms
> + - irq-flags: IRQ flag to be used ( eg: IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING)

This looks distinctly odd. Why do you need this here?

> +Optional Properties:
> + - gpio-active-low: Property describing whether gpio active state is 1 or 0
> +		    If defined , low state of gpio means active.

Surely this is defined in the gpio flags?

> + - check-on-resume: Property describing whether to check the gpio state
> +		    while resuming from SLEEP.

Does this need to be in DT? Surely we could jsut always check this?

> + - state-on: print_state is overriden with state_on string if provided.
> +	     If NULL, default method of extcon class is used.
> + - state_off: print_state is overriden with state_off string  if provided.
> +	      If NUll, default method of extcon class is used.

This means nothing from a HW perspective. This describes linux internal
details.

[...]

> +		of_property_read_u32(np, "debounce", (u32 *)&pdata->debounce);
> +		of_property_read_u32(np, "irq-flags", (u32 *)&pdata->irq_flags);

If you need theses casts, the code is broken.

These functions can only read into a u32. If you pass a smaller type
you'll trash aribtrary memory locations, and if you pass a larger type
this is broken for BE.

Mark.