linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: acpi: use the fwnode in acpi_gpiochip

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Message-ID: <ZAs7IS8tcc92RVCM@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:13:53 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
Cc:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Daniel Kaehn <kaehndan@...il.com>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: acpi: use the fwnode in acpi_gpiochip_find()

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 02:38:10PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> While trying to set up an SSDT override for a USB-2-I2C chip [0],
> I realized that the function acpi_gpiochip_find() was using the parent
> of the gpio_chip to do the ACPI matching.
> 
> This works fine on my Ice Lake laptop because AFAICT, the DSDT presents
> the PCI device INT3455 as the "Device (GPI0)", but is in fact handled
> by the pinctrl driver in Linux.
> The pinctrl driver then creates a gpio_chip device. This means that the
> gc->parent device in that case is the GPI0 device from ACPI and everything
> works.
> 
> However, in the hid-cp2112 case, the parent is the USB device, and the
> gpio_chip is directly under that USB device. Which means that in this case
> gc->parent points at the USB device, and so we can not do an ACPI match
> towards the GPIO device.
> 
> I think it is safe to resolve the ACPI matching through the fwnode
> because when we call gpiochip_add_data(), the first thing it does is
> setting a proper gc->fwnode: if it is not there, it borrows the fwnode
> of the parent.
> 
> So in my Ice Lake case, gc->fwnode is the one from the parent, meaning
> that the ACPI handle we will get is the one from the GPI0 in the DSDT
> (the pincrtl one). And in the hid-cp2112 case, we get the actual
> fwnode from the gpiochip we created in the HID device, making it working.

Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko