Re: Linux logs new warning `gpio gpiochip0: gpiochip_add_data_with_key: get_direction failed: -22`

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 03:37:47PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > In any case: Linus: what should be our policy here? There are some pinctrl
> > > drivers which return EINVAL if the pin in question is not in GPIO mode. I don't
> > > think this is an error. Returning errors should be reserved for read failures
> > > and so on. Are you fine with changing the logic here to explicitly default to
> > > INPUT as until recently all errors would be interpreted as such anyway?
> > 
> > Oh hm I guess. There was no defined semantic until now anyway. Maybe
> > Andy has something to say about it though, it's very much his pin controller.
> 
> Driver is doing correct things. If you want to be pedantic, we need to return
> all possible pin states (which are currently absent from GPIO get_direction()
> perspective) and even though it's not possible to tell from the pin muxer
> p.o.v. If function is I2C, it's open-drain, if some other, it may be completely
> different, but pin muxer might only guesstimate the state of the particular
> function is and I do not think guesstimation is a right approach.
> 
> We may use the specific error code, though. and document that semantics.

Brief looking at the error descriptions and the practical use the best (and
unique enough) choice may be EBADSLT.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko