linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] gpiolib: convert 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to support multiple gpiochip banks per device

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:10:12 +0200
From:   Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:     linux-gpio <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        René van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        John Thomson <git@...nthomson.fastmail.com.au>,
        NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] gpiolib: convert 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to
 support multiple gpiochip banks per device

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:43 PM Bartosz Golaszewski
<bgolaszewski@...libre.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 6:12 AM Sergio Paracuellos
> <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > There are some unfortunate cases where the DT representation
> > of the device and the Linux internal representation differs.
> > Such drivers for devices are forced to implement a custom function
> > to avoid the core code 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to be executed
> > since in any other case every gpiochip inside will got repeated
> > names through its internal gpiochip banks. To avoid this antipattern
> > this changes are introduced trying to adapt core 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names'
> > to get a correct behaviour for every single situation.
> >
> > This series introduces a new 'offset' field in the gpiochip structure
> > that can be used for those unfortunate drivers that must define multiple
> > gpiochips per device.
> >
> > Drivers affected by this situation are also updated. These are
> > 'gpio-mt7621' and 'gpio-brcmstb'.
> >
> > Motivation for this series available at [0].
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your feedback.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >     Sergio Paracuellos
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> >   - Add comma in warning message for clarity.
> >   - Collect Gregory Fong Reviewed-by for PATCH 1/3.
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> >   - Reflow a string literal to be on one line in PATCH 1/3.
> >   - reflow commit messages PATCH 2/3 and PATCH 3/3 to occupy a little bit
> >     more available space per line.
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> >   - Address Gregory Fong comments in v1 of the series [1].
> >   - Collect Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by for the series.
> >   - Collect Gregory Fong Acked-by for PATCH 3/3.
> >
> > [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/26/198
> > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/8/47
> >
> > Sergio Paracuellos (3):
> >   gpiolib: convert 'devprop_gpiochip_set_names' to support multiple
> >     gpiochip banks per device
> >   gpio: mt7621: support gpio-line-names property
> >   gpio: brcmstb: remove custom 'brcmstb_gpio_set_names'
> >
> >  drivers/gpio/gpio-brcmstb.c | 45 +------------------------------------
> >  drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c  |  1 +
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c      | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  include/linux/gpio/driver.h |  4 ++++
> >  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>
> Patches queued for next. Thanks!

Thanks!

Best regards,
    Sergio Paracuellos