Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On Friday 14 March 2014 04:32 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>> Am 11.03.2014 11:15, schrieb Linus Walleij:
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The driver missed an of_xlate function to translate gpio numbers
>>>> as found in the DT to the correct chip and number.
>>>>
>>>> While there I've set #gpio_cells to a fixed value of 2.
>>>>
>>>> I've used gpio-pxa.c as template for those changes and tested my changes
>>>> successfully on a da850 board using entries for gpio-leds in a DT. So I didn't
>>>> reinvent the wheel but just copied and tested stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Grygorii Strashko for the hint to the existing code in gpio-pxa.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
>>>
>>> This v2 version applied, thanks!
>>
>> Thanks, but actually that should have been a fix for 3.14 with which the
>> OF functionality for davinci gpio gets introduced. I assum with the
>> patch in for-next, 3.14 will appear with that functionality broken and
>> it will become a candidate for -stable.
> 
> I just get the impression that DT support for DaVinci in v3.14 is so risky
> and unstable that noone except those implementing it (i.e. you) is really
> using it, is that correct?
> 
> In that case it is hardly a fix that we need to rush out to the entire world.

One thing to note is that this driver is used by keystone too and all
its users are DT-only. Although I do not see any in-kernel DT GPIO users
even there.

I can confirm the patch does not break my gpiolib based test module
(test with and without DT), but then it did not have an issue even before.

Thanks,
Sekhar