[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add DW APB GPIO driver

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 05:35:25 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On 10 August 2015 at 09:01, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > On Friday, August 07, 2015 at 10:37:54 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Marek,
> > 
> > Hi Simon,
> > 
> > > On 7 August 2015 at 14:35, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > > > On Friday, August 07, 2015 at 09:13:45 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > >> Hi Marek,
> > > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > >> On 5 August 2015 at 19:49, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > > >> > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 at 04:39:33 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > >> >> Hi Marek,
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Hi Simon,
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > >> >> It's up to you. Normally each bank has a name and the datasheet
> > > >> >> specifies it. In your case if not you could think about a naming
> > > >> >> scheme.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Can you please take a look into arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi ?
> > > >> > The system has three GPIO controllers (look for gpio0, gpio1,
> > > >> > gpio2) and each of these controllers has one bank (porta, portb,
> > > >> > portc) .
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > I can name my gpios portxN , where x is either of a,b,c and N is
> > > >> > the GPIO number. The problem is, I cannot determine in
> > > >> > dwapb_gpio_bind() which one is "porta", "portb" and "portc"
> > > >> > because all I have is the physical addess of the GPIO controller
> > > >> > and the index of the bank in the namespace of that controller.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Sure, I can do some sort of global counting in the driver, but I
> > > >> > would like to avoid that sort of thing. I can also add some kind
> > > >> > of ad-hoc DT prop, but that's also not a good idea I think. Do
> > > >> > you have any suggestion for me please ?
> > > >> 
> > > >> One option is to use the device tree node name but it isn't very
> > > >> friendly - gpio0 at xxxxx.
> > > > 
> > > > That's what I do now pretty much.
> > > > 
> > > >> You could perhaps add a new property like 'bank-name'?
> > > > 
> > > > Do we want to add ad-hoc DT nodes which are
> > > > a) Not describing hardware
> > > > b) Not part of the official DT bindings for that platform
> > > > ?
> > > > 
> > > > Is that really a way to go ?
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > It needs to be part of the official binding. Naming the hardware is
> > > part of the hardware definition - see for example the regulator-name
> > > property for regulators.
> > 
> > So what do you think about introducing a 'bank-name' property then ?
> > I think this might work just fine ?
> 
> I think it's OK - just make sure you send the GPIO binding change to Linux
> too.
> 
> > > Another option is to use an alias:
> > > 
> > > aliases {
> > > 
> > >    gpio0 = &gpio_0;
> > >    gpio1 = &gpio_1;
> > >    gpio2 = &gpio_2;
> > > 
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Then you can turn gpio0 into bank A, gpio1 into bank B, etc.
> > 
> > Is there a function which maps the udevice->dev->of_offset into an
> > alias's seq ID ?
> 
> dev->seq, once it is probed. Until it is probed it doesn't have a
> sequence number (by definition).
> 
> You can use fdtdec_get_alias_seq() but I don't recommend it. We're
> trying to drop fdtdec eventually.

OK. I sent a V2, so that should be OK now.