Re: [PATCH] gpio: mvebu: change compatible string for PWM support

[Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>]

Hi Ralph,
 
 On jeu., juin 01 2017, Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> wrote:

> As it turns out more than just Armada 370 and XP support using GPIO
> lines as PWM lines. For example the Armada 38x family has the same
> hardware support. As such "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio" for the
> compatible string is a misnomer.
>
> Change the compatible string to "marvell,armada-370-gpio" before the
> driver makes it out of the -rc stage. This also follows the practice of
> using only the first device family supported as part of the name.
>
> Also update the documentation and comments in the code accordingly.
>

As I suggested it obviously:

Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>

Thanks,

Gregory


> Fixes: 757642f9a584 ("gpio: mvebu: Add limited PWM support")
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The suggestion to change the compatible string last minute comes from
> Gregory CLEMENT after we realized the bad choice of name due to Richard
> Genoud reporting an issue when he used the driver with an Armada-388.
>
> Rob Herring just requested to use a separate compatible string but not
> what it should look like. So I assume he is fine with the new one as
> well. The rest of this patch is rather minor.
>
> Nothing in tree is using this driver so far, first consumers will be
> added with 4.13.
>
> Ralph
>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mvebu.txt | 6 +++---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c                             | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mvebu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mvebu.txt
> index 42c3bb2..01e331a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mvebu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mvebu.txt
> @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ Required properties:
>  Optional properties:
>  
>  In order to use the GPIO lines in PWM mode, some additional optional
> -properties are required. Only Armada 370 and XP support these properties.
> +properties are required.
>  
> -- compatible: Must contain "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio"
> +- compatible: Must contain "marvell,armada-370-gpio"
>  
>  - reg: an additional register set is needed, for the GPIO Blink
>    Counter on/off registers.
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Example:
>  		};
>  
>  		gpio1: gpio@18140 {
> -			compatible = "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio";
> +			compatible = "marvell,armada-370-gpio";
>  			reg = <0x18140 0x40>, <0x181c8 0x08>;
>  			reg-names = "gpio", "pwm";
>  			ngpios = <17>;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c
> index 19a92ef..f94fd47 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c
> @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static int mvebu_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev,
>  	u32 set;
>  
>  	if (!of_device_is_compatible(mvchip->chip.of_node,
> -				     "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio"))
> +				     "marvell,armada-370-gpio"))
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	if (IS_ERR(mvchip->clk))
> @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id mvebu_gpio_of_match[] = {
>  		.data	    = (void *) MVEBU_GPIO_SOC_VARIANT_ARMADAXP,
>  	},
>  	{
> -		.compatible = "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio",
> +		.compatible = "marvell,armada-370-gpio",
>  		.data	    = (void *) MVEBU_GPIO_SOC_VARIANT_ORION,
>  	},
>  	{
> @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ static int mvebu_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  						 mvchip);
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Armada 370/XP has simple PWM support for GPIO lines */
> +	/* Some MVEBU SoCs have simple PWM support for GPIO lines */
>  	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PWM))
>  		return mvebu_pwm_probe(pdev, mvchip, id);
>  
> -- 
> 2.10.2
>

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