Re: [BUG] pinctrl: reg-fixed-voltage usb0-vbus: error -EINVAL: can't get GPIO

Hans Verkuil
2022-01-18T14:13:26Z

On 1/18/22 13:50, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Hello
>
> As reported on old googlegroup sunxi mainling list, on linux-next-20220118, USB storage fail to bring up on orangepiPC.
> We can see some error logs in dmesg:
> reg-fixed-voltage usb0-vbus: error -EINVAL: can't get GPIO
> reg-fixed-voltage: probe of usb0-vbus failed with error -22
>
> This is bisected to: 8df89a7cbc63c7598c00611ad17b67e8d5b4fad3 pinctrl-sunxi: don't call pinctrl_gpio_direction()
>
> Reverting this commit lead to a working USB storage being setuped.

Hmm, I'll bet it's EPROBE_DEFER related.

The original call (pre that commit) of pinctrl_gpio_direction_output() checks
if the pin controller could find the pin (pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range()).

That doesn't happen in the new code.

The sunxi appears to have two pincontrollers in the device tree (&pio and &r_pio),
that might be part of the reason this is an issue here.

Linus, should there be a check somewhere for a missing pincontroller in
gpiod_get_index()? I suspect that before my commit it was the gpiod_configure_flags
call in that function that returned -EPROBE_DEFER, but I'm not completely certain.

If someone can give me a hint about what should be done, then I can make a patch.

The alternative is to revert this sunxi patch, but perhaps this is a deeper
problem with these pincontroller drivers that set the direction directly
instead of going through pinctrl_gpio_direction_output().

Corentin, it would help me if you can figure out where the EPROBE_DEFER is
returned (pre-commit) in drivers/pinctrl/core.c. Probably pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range().

And I'd love to have the WARN_ON(1) output from just before the 'return -EPROBE_DEFER'.

Regards,

Hans

>
> Regards