Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] i2c: designware: set pinctrl recovery information from device pinctrl

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

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:15:35AM +0200, Hawa, Hanna wrote:
> On 12/14/2022 6:09 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > > +     if (dev->dev->pins && dev->dev->pins->p)
> > > +             rinfo->pinctrl = dev->dev->pins->p;
> > Hmm... I don't see how this field is being used.
> > Can you elaborate?
> 
> This field is used in i2c_generic_scl_recovery(), if it's not NULL then the
> flow will set the state to GPIO before running the recovery mechanism.
>         if (bri->pinctrl)
>                 pinctrl_select_state(bri->pinctrl, bri->pins_gpio);

OK, but why that function doesn't use the dev->pins->p if it's defined?
(As a fallback when rinfo->pinctrl is NULL.)

Wolfram?

Hanna, it seems you missed I²C maintainer to Cc...

...

> I saw that that the change failed in complication for SPARC architecture, as
> the pins field is wraparound with CONFIG_PINCTRL in device struct. I though
> on two options to solve the compilation error, first by adding wraparound of
> CONFIG_PINCTRL when accessing the pins field. And the second option is to
> add get function in pinctrl/devinfo.h file, which return the pins field, or
> NULL in case the PINCTRL is not defined. Which option you think we can go
> with?

Getter with a stub sounds better to me, so you won't access some device core
fields.

Linus, what do you think about all these (including previous paragraph)?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko