Re: [PATCH] gpio: aggregator: restore the set_config operation

[Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>]

On 10/6/25 9:42 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 at 16:30, Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com> wrote:
>> On 10/3/25 3:59 PM, Thomas Richard wrote:
>>>> Is there any specific reason why you are doing this unconditionally,
>>>> instead of only when any of its parents support .set_config(), like
>>>> was done before?
>>>>
>>> My idea was: it will be handled by the core, so the if statement is not
>>> needed. But if we conditionally add the operation we can save some time
>>> in case there is no chip supporting set_config().
>>
>> I just remembered the true reason why I'm doing this unconditionally.
>>
>> The user of the forwarder can override GPIO operations like I do in the
>> pinctrl-upboard driver [1].
>> And now we can add/remove GPIO desc at runtime, if set_config() is set
>> conditionally in gpiochip_fwd_desc_add() it will override the custom
>> set_config() operation.
>> So the only solution is to set the set_config() operation
>> unconditionally in devm_gpiochip_fwd_alloc().
> 
> OK, that makes sense, so
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> 
> I do find this overriding a bit fragile.
> And in theory, such a driver could override chip->can_sleep to false,
> which might be overwritten again by gpiochip_fwd_desc_add()...

Yes, I agree.
Maybe we should not export gpiochip_fwd_get_gpiochip() so it will not be
possible to get the gpio_chip and override some properties. And we add
some helpers to override the GPIO operations. I can make a try.

Regards,

Thomas

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