Re: [PATCH] i2c: muxes: pca954x: Allow sharing reset GPIO

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 06/06/2024 23:58, Eddie James wrote:
> 
> On 3/10/24 23:14, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Some hardware designs with multiple PCA954x devices use a reset GPIO
>> connected to all the muxes. Support this configuration by making use of
>> the reset controller framework which can deal with the shared reset
>> GPIOs. Fall back to the old GPIO descriptor method if the reset
>> controller framework is not enabled.
> 
> 
> Hello Chris, Krzysztof,
> 
> 
> This change makes it so that the reset subsystem reset doesn't behave in 
> the same way as the fallback gpio reset. The gpio, as part of acquiring 
> it, gets set high, and then set low in the mux driver. So, the device 
> reset is toggled. In the case of the reset subsystem option, the reset 
> is only de-asserted (so the device is taken out of reset).
> 
> 
> I'm interested in preserving the previous behavior but with the shared 
> reset line. This can't be done just by doing "assert" first because the 
> shared reset subsystem doesn't allow that. So the reset-gpio driver 
> would have to implement the reset operation - no problem. However, how 
> to specify the wait time for the reset-gpio driver here? Something like 
> the simple reset driver maybe? Or a function call from the reset 
> consumer driver to specify the wait time for that reset?

You can check my slides from EOSS/OSSNA this year:
https://ossna2024.sched.com/event/1aPvr?iframe=no
maybe links to original work will help you.

Best regards,
Krzysztof