linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/2 v5] pinctrl: introduce generic pin config

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Message-ID: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1750B77903@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:13:06 -0800
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@...aro.org>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rajendra.nayak@...aro.org>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...vell.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2 v5] pinctrl: introduce generic pin config

Linus Walleij wrote at Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:54 PM:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com> wrote:
> > Linus Walleij wrote at Monday, December 05, 2011 9:01 AM:
> >> But if I can control the resistance of the pull-up resistor
> >> that brings us to a triplet: {parameter, type, argument}
> >> like this to set the generic pull-up to 100 kOhm:
> >>
> >> set_generic_bias(PIN_CONFIG_BIAS, PIN_CONFIG_BIAS_PULL_UP, 100000);
> >>
> >> parameter = BIAS
> >> type = PULL_UP
> >> argument = 100 kOhm
> >
> > I think that selecting what the value of pull-up is and enabling/disabling
> > pull-up are separate things, so you'd have:
> >
> > set PIN_CONFIG_PULL_UP_RESISTANCE 100000
> > set PIN_CONFIG_BIAS PULL_UP
> 
> So two calls to set the pull up instead of one?
> That does not look good.

Worry about that seems a bit like a micro-optimization to me, but I
somewhat see your point.

> > Of course, this probably ties into which of the following options your chip
> > HW has:
> >
> > a) Pull-up 100K or pull-up 10K or pull-down or tri-state
> >
> > b) Pull-up or pull-down or tri-state, with a second register field to
> > set pull-up at 100k or 10k.
> 
> But what registers to write and in which order doesn't matter
> for this interface. That is up to the driver and that is the kind
> of stuff drivers are supposed to figure out.
> 
> If the driver gets a single call which says "pull up" and
> a parameter "100k" it can very well figure out what to do
> with that.

Yes, that's true.

> >> Don't you mean we would then have
> >>
> >> pin_config_param {
> >>    PIN_CONFIG_INPUT_MODE,
> >>    ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> enum pin_config_input_mode_value {
> >>     PIN_CONFIG_INPUT_MODE_SCHMITT,
> >>     PIN_CONFIG_INPUT_MODE_DEBOUNCE,
> >> };
> >
> > Schmitt and debounce seem like completely orthogonal HW features to me,
> > so I wouldn't make them mutually exclusive.
> 
> True. But the above enumerators does not make them
> mutually exclusive do they? You can very well set both
> with two calls.

I'd expect that each pin_config_param has exactly one single value
associated with it. Hence, having Schmitt and debounce as the values
rather than the parameters does make them mutually exclusive.

-- 
nvpublic

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