Re: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: Restore native CS probing when pinctrl-bcm2835 is absent

[Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>]

On 4/2/25 04:44, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM Florian Fainelli
> <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> The lookup table forces the use of the "pinctrl-bcm2835" GPIO chip
>> provider and essentially assumes that there is going to be such a
>> provider, and if not, we will fail to set-up the SPI device.
>>
> 
> Yeah, the consumer driver itself is an unfortunate place to define the
> provider data. This could potentially be moved to gpiolib-of.c quirks.
> 
>> While this is true on Raspberry Pi based systems (2835/36/37, 2711,
>> 2712), this is not true on 7712/77122 Broadcom STB systems which use the
>> SPI driver, but not the GPIO driver.
>>
>> There used to be an early check:
>>
>>         chip = gpiochip_find("pinctrl-bcm2835", chip_match_name);
>>         if (!chip)
>>                 return 0;
>>
>> which would accomplish that nicely, bring something similar back by
>> checking for the compatible strings matched by the pinctrl-bcm2835.c
>> driver, if there is no Device Tree node matching those compatible
>> strings, then we won't find any GPIO provider registered by the
>> "pinctrl-bcm2835" driver.
>>
>> Fixes: 21f252cd29f0 ("spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API")
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c
>> index a5d621b94d5e..5926e004d9a6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c
>> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c
>> @@ -1226,7 +1226,12 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
>>          struct bcm2835_spi *bs = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
>>          struct bcm2835_spidev *target = spi_get_ctldata(spi);
>>          struct gpiod_lookup_table *lookup __free(kfree) = NULL;
>> -       int ret;
>> +       const char *pinctrl_compats[] = {
>> +               "brcm,bcm2835-gpio",
>> +               "brcm,bcm2711-gpio",
>> +               "brcm,bcm7211-gpio",
>> +       };
>> +       int ret, i;
>>          u32 cs;
>>
>>          if (!target) {
>> @@ -1291,6 +1296,14 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
>>                  goto err_cleanup;
>>          }
>>
>> +       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pinctrl_compats); i++) {
>> +               if (of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, pinctrl_compats[i]))
>> +                       break;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(pinctrl_compats))
>> +               return 0;
>> +
>>          /*
>>           * TODO: The code below is a slightly better alternative to the utter
>>           * abuse of the GPIO API that I found here before. It creates a
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>>
> 
> The fix is good for now but I'd still try to move this out of the
> driver at some point.
> 
> Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

Thanks, I will see what I can do on that front, but if you don't hear 
from me in the next few weeks, don't hesitate to ask again :)
-- 
Florian