linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] gpio: loongson: add firmware offset parse support

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:27:41 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@...ngson.cn>, wanghongliang@...ngson.cn,
        loongson-kernel@...ts.loongnix.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] gpio: loongson: add firmware offset parse support

Hi Yinbo,

thanks for your patch!

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:41 AM Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn> wrote:

> Loongson GPIO controllers come in multiple variants that are compatible
> except for certain register offset values.  Add support for device
> properties allowing to specify them in ACPI or DT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>

(...)
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct loongson_gpio_chip_data {
>         unsigned int            conf_offset;
>         unsigned int            out_offset;
>         unsigned int            in_offset;
> +       unsigned int            inten_offset;

Consider just changing all of these from unsigned int to u32.

(...)
> +       if (device_property_read_u32(dev, "loongson,gpio-conf-offset", (u32 *)&d->conf_offset)
> +           || device_property_read_u32(dev, "loongson,gpio-in-offset", (u32 *)&d->in_offset)
> +           || device_property_read_u32(dev, "loongson,gpio-out-offset", (u32 *)&d->out_offset)
> +           || device_property_read_u32(dev, "loongson,gpio-ctrl-mode", (u32 *)&d->mode))

Because then you can get rid of this annoying forest of cast.

I'm fine with doing this change in this patch without a need for a separate
refactoring, as it's just a contained driver and clearly just about typing.

Yours,
Linus Walleij